WordPress cannot access external network

  • Hi I am creating an intranet wordpress site, I am trying to install themes/plugins but I am getting this 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.

    I checked the firewall to see if it blocking the host and it turns out that there were no hits on the firewall meaning that the connection did not even try to leave the box. I can access the internet from that box but wordpress can’t. I tried adding define(WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL', false); in wp-config.php but it did not do anything. Any ideas??

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  • You need to speak to your local server/network administrator about this.

    Thread Starter laithabbas0

    (@laithabbas0)

    He is sitting right next to me. The problem is coming from WordPress, I can ping https://www.google.com and it shows up on the firewall but when I search for plugins I get the error and nothing on the firewall.

    The problem is coming from WordPress

    Sorry but you are the only one currently experiencing this problem. It’s a local server issue – sometimes caused by a failure to compile PHP with cUrl.

    Thread Starter laithabbas0

    (@laithabbas0)

    I am running it on Ubuntu Server and I install apache2, mysql and wordpress manually I also had to install php module for apache manually. so the problem might be that any idea where it could be coming from? am I supposed to have certain apache modules for this to work other than mysql and php modules?

    Not usually. All I can suggest is that you check through your Apache & PHP configuration.

    Thread Starter laithabbas0

    (@laithabbas0)

    You were right, php curl extension was not loaded. I just did apt-get install php5-curl and it worked!

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