Setup Errors:

When first installing OIOpublisher, setup errors may be flagged up. These are perfectly normal, and are to let you know that there are certain things you need to do to complete setup of the script. You should only receive these messages when installing in "standalone" mode.

1.) Fatal / Parsing error:

This error occurs when you have edited the config file, but used invalid php code. The most common cause is that you have not entered the plugin url or database details inside the quotation marks provided, or you have accidentally deleted a quotation mark.

2.) Fill in the plugin_url variable where indicated:

This error occurs when you have not filled in the url of your OIO install directory in the "plugin url" section of the config file. Also remember that the url should not end with a trailing slash.

3.) Fill in the database connection info where indicated:

This error occurs when you have not filled in all four of the fields required in the "database" section of the config file.

4.) Cannot Connect to database:

This error occurs when you have filled in all four fields in the "database" section of the config file, BUT the details are incorrect. Check that the host, username, password and database name are all exactly the same as the values in your web hosting control panel.

5.) Please make the directory writable:

This error occurs when either the "cache" or "uploads" directories cannot be written to by the web server. You'll need to login to the web server using an FTP client and change the permissions of these folders. Navigate to the directory you installed OIO in, and right click on the directory the error relates to. You should see a menu option called "file permissions" (or something similar). Select that option to bring up the permissions menu.

>> Tutorial on changing permissions available here

Frist, try switching the permissions from 755 to 766, and see if the error in OIO disappears. If it doesn't, you'll need to try 777 instead.

Please be aware that setting a folder's permissions to 777 is a security risk. Properly configured servers should allow a directory to be writable with permissions set to 755 or 766. [more info]

6.) A "memory exhausted" error

This error can sometimes occur when activating OIO as a Wordpress plugin. If your blog already consumes a lot of memory (eg. using lots of plugins), then you may run out of memory trying to use OIO. To fix this problem, try increasing the memory in your wp-config.php file using the line of code below:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', "64M");

Last updated: 18th October, 2009