Issues accessing Plugins/Themes in the admin section

  • Hi!
    Have some issues in some parts of the admin section. Most works fine: The front end runs smoothly, and in the admin section almost all words ok, apart from the plugin section, appearance->Add new theme section, and the tools->Import section. So seems to be the sections which are collecting data from the web.

    It’s a fresh installation, no plugins/themes/content has been added.

    OS: MAC OSX 10.11.3
    Running XAMPP 7.0.2
    OpenSSL version: 1.0.2f
    WP version: 4.4.2

    Errors:

    Under Appearance->add theme I get the following error:
    “An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with www.remarpro.com or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums.”

    Under Plugins (both “add new” and “installed”) I get this error after load time:
    “Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with www.remarpro.com or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums. (WordPress could not establish a secure connection to www.remarpro.com. Please contact your server administrator.) in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wp-test1/wp-includes/update.php on line 303”

    Tools->Import->Wordpress doesn’t load. Only get a spinning wheel, after some time I get:
    Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with www.remarpro.com or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums. (WordPress could not establish a secure connection to www.remarpro.com. Please contact your server administrator.) in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wp-test1/wp-admin/includes/plugin-install.php on line 158
    An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with www.remarpro.com or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums.

    I searched the forum and found some threads mentioning the SSL, but that is up to date. Anyone knows what is causing this issue?

    Thanks!

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  • Hi,

    @patriksmith

    On Mac OSX 10.11.3, I had an old XAMPP installation that I deleted —only because I had problems updating WP and plugins.

    So, after 2 days of work, I have finally installed this brand new version of XAMPP. Exactly the same one as yours:

    – XAMPP 7.0.2 (Apache 2.4.18, PHP 7.0.2 with MariaDB)
    – OpenSSL 1.0.2f (but ‘openssl version’ in Terminal gives ‘OpenSSL 0.9.8zg’)
    – WP 4.4.2

    On a fresh installation of WP and no plugins or themes except Twenty Sixteen, I was somewhat stunned to find out that these updating problems are still there, as if these 2 days of work were just a waste of time. Like you, the front end runs smoothly.

    At the time of the old XAMPP installation, I underlined the problem I had in this thread, some 3 weeks ago. In that thread, James Huff (WordPress Volunteer Moderator) said that WordPress is going to need at least OpenSSL 1.0 and pointed to another thread for solution (found here) for OS X 10.11.x. I read the whole thread as well as the step-by-step procedure by Micheal Fraase available here.

    But Mr. Fraase has El Capitan/Server 5.0.15 which is not quite like having simple XAMPP on plain vanilla El Capitan installation (not sure here). Furthermore, if I were to go that route, I would have to install Homebrew and run a batch of esoteric commands to install another set of cURL and PHP modules —and not too sure if I could break the integrated security of OSX doing so.

    Frankly, I have to admit being first a writer that likes having a nice site (hence that test bed in localhost). So I’m not confortable with the road proposed here.

    In the end, is there any localhost solution (XAMPP or otherwise) that is able to run WordPress without updating problems on OSX El Capitan?

    If not, I would consider a flat-file system like grav, or go directly with an hosted solution on wordpress.com.

    Thanks in advance for any input!

    For the sake of completeness following my previous post, I want to let know that I’ve been able to resolve my problems of WordPress not updating the core files, themes and plugins.

    And it’s something that was at the antipode of anything I could have suspected. I posted my solution here in a new thread of the WordPress Localhost Installs forum.

    Hi “zakoops” I am out of options as far as my problem with the Pinnacle theme by WordPress, I cannot activate the ADD MEDIA button on my posts and pages, nobody seem to know what it is, however two guys trying to help me where able to access my site and had no problems doing what can’t do on my site on my PC?!
    I changed themes, updated WordPress program., so it has got to be something
    with my PC, I am running on El Capitan version 10.11.5, and Safari 9.1.1.
    I tried on Chrome and Firefox but the same thing happened there.

    Do you have a solution?
    Thanks Ulrich in Switzerland

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