You cannot use this plugin

  • Resolved markwebstar

    (@markwebstar)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    I’ve just tried to run WP-DBManager and received the following error :-

    passthru() enabled.
    system() disabled.
    exec() disabled.

    I’m sorry, your server administrator has disabled passthru(), system() and/or exec(), thus you cannot use this plugin. Please find an alternative plugin.

    I ignored the warning and it appears to have completed a backup but there’s obviously a problem and I don’t know if it’s worked properly. Please could someone advise me how to correct the error ?

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  • Plugin Author Lester Chan

    (@gamerz)

    You can just ignore the error because this plugin requires all of these functions to be enabled to function 100%. For your case, passthru() is needed to run the backup, so you are ok.

    In order to know whether there is a problem, download the backup and open it using a text editor and check to see if any of your content is inside.

    Thread Starter markwebstar

    (@markwebstar)

    thanks for your quick response. i’ll try to check the last backup but not sure how i would know if all the content is there …

    if the plugin needs all of these functions to work correctly, how can i enable system() and exec() and would there be any potential danger to my site in doing so ?

    Plugin Author Lester Chan

    (@gamerz)

    Check the file size? If you see some content is there, all the content is there. It is either there is all content or there is no content. There is no in between

    I can’t advice on that because it really depends on how technical you or how your host deals with hosting.

    Thread Starter markwebstar

    (@markwebstar)

    I think it was actually because I was still running an old version of PHP. I just updated to 7.1 and the warning has gone away.

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