Installer fails re: SHELL_EXEC

  • Resolved sinergyinaction

    (@sinergyinaction)


    1 year, 9 months ago

    Hi,
    I’m trying to recover a wordpress website thanks to a backup I have from a previous version of XAMPP to the latest 8.2.0
    I am using the DUPLICATOR plugin.
    When I run the installer.php script the resulting install window says that an error ha occurred:

    An error has occurred. In order to load the full installer please resolve the issue below.
    NOTICE: ZipArchive and Shell Exec are not enabled on this server please talk to your host or server admin about enabling ZipArchive or Shell Exec on this server or manually extract archive then choose Advanced > Manual Extract in installer

    Indicating SHELL EXEC is not enabled in the PHP running with this version of XAMPP.

    However, when I inspect the php.ini file the variable disabled_functions is empty, meaning that shell_exec is not disabled. Still the installer can’t find it. Why???
    Is there any other place on XAMMP where shell_exec can be enabled?
    Failing this what else can be tried?

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  • Plugin Support devdavidam

    (@devdavidam)

    @sinergyinaction if you are not able to enable shell_exec you can enable the PHP ZipArchive extension or extract the archive manually and continue with the installation, like the error message suggests.

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