WordPress Download Monitor errors when downloading

Snerf,
How can you tell where your error came from? “I am having a Error 404 – Page not found!” with every download. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin with no success. I don’t want to add your information unless I”m sure I’m having the same error. Did you add your code to the functions.inc.php file?

Blessings,
Wendy Merritt

I can tell where the error comes from, because the browser tells me there is an error in that file.

Everytime I update the plugin, I need to fix the functions.inc.php file as stated. It is a little annoying.

I do not see anything in my browser that tells me where the error is. I just see a 404 error statement. Am I missing something or not looking in the right place? I don’t want to make these changes and then find out that wasn’t my issue.

If this is my problem where exactly in the functions.inc.php file am I adding this line? Do I included the single quotes you surrounded the code with?

Thanks for your help.

Blessings,
Wendy Merritt

I am sorry, I am not here to fix other people’s problems, I am here to say that to fix “my” problems I needed to add in the if (!function_exists..) to all the commands inside that file.

Way to promote the Open Source spirit!

All I asked was what YOU did and where. I’m sorry I asked you to step outside your comfort zone.

~Wendy Merritt

P.S. Takers annoy me!

I explained what I did, in my 1st post.

Sheesh, maybe if you READ the post you wouldn’t get all crazy.

I have the same problem and Snerf DID explain what he did to repair it in the first post…

Ka-ri-ne, Snerf merely what he did not exactly how he went about doing it. Such as it is, I fixed the problem myself. It was not this issue at all but rather an error in the .htaccess file.

Greetings. I also I have the same problem wendymerritt hope you can help me and tell me that part of htaccess fixed it again worked for the download – monitor ..!

I hope I’m desperate greeting prompt response!!

DjSk-MoOn.com I thought I had it fixed but today I’m getting the dreaded 440 error again. This is what my added files to the .htaccess look like(public_html/YourUrlFileName/.htaccess)

#BEGIN Download Monitor
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^downloads/([^/]+)$ /wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=$1 [L]
#END Download Monitor

Since mine isn’t working at the present moment you may not want to used what I have here…but if all else fails you could try it.

I’ll let you know what fixes it…when I get it fixed.

Ummm, that would be a dreaded 404 error…lol

This is what my current error looks like

https://ow.ly/i/cFJV

I also noticed that the link in the address bar is not the link set in the Download Monitor:

https://myurl.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/06/filename.pdf?doing_wp_cron

Any ideas?

Okay, @DjSk-MoOn.com, I got everything fixed, finally. Something with my hosting (according to Mike Jolley) at Hostgator is requiring that I make all the downloads a force download. Here’s what my .htaccess looks like:

public_html/***Yourdomain***/.htaccess

# BEGIN Download-Monitor
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^downloads/([^/]+)$ /home/**yourhostingusername**/public_html/**yourdomain**/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=$1 [L]
# END Download-Monitor

RewriteEngine off
<IfModule mod_suphp.c>
	suPHP_ConfigPath /home/**yourhostingusername**/public_html/**yourdomain**/php.ini
	<Files php.ini>
		order allow,deny
		deny from all
	</Files>
</IfModule>

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^downloads/([^/]+)$ https://**yoururl**/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I hope this helps. ??