Error(S) as soon as I installed plugin

Note the big red warning that said exec() was required? It’s not there to look pretty, it really means exec() is required, but your webhost has disabled it.

That said, good news is on the way, but it won’t be free either. I’m launching a ‘cloud optimization’ service with the next release so that those who can’t use ‘local’ optimizers can pay a small fee to run the optimizations on a remote server instead.

Hello,

I’m having the same problem, I get some messages that exec() is required. How can I enable it on my host? I run a VPS.

I am getting these 2 messages:

Warning: get_current_user() has been disabled for security reasons
Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons

The 2nd message is showing like 20 times, with errors on different lines of the /public_html/wp-content/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/ewww-image-optimizer.php file

All plugins are disabled and I am running WP 3.6.

find your php.ini config file (usually in /etc/php5/apache2/)

find the line that says disable_functions (or disable_function possibly) and remove those two functions from the list.

restart apache

Thank you so much for your fast reply. Unfortunately, there’s only 1 php.ini file for all server (shared server) and those 2 functions can’t be enabled because of security reasons ??

Isn’t there another way to make the plugin work? It’s quite bad that the plugin can only be used on a VPS or dedicated server.

It can be used on plenty of shared hosting setups: Dreamhost, Bluehost, Godaddy, and others. I don’t know what exactly they have in place that allows them to give their users more freedom, but I definitely understand the security concerns of those running smaller setups.

The next version of the plugin will have a ‘cloud’ option that will allow people that don’t want to allow exec() (or can’t) to optimize the images on a remote server (for a price of course).

Looking forward to the update then ?? Do you have any idea how long it will take until you release it?

hoping to release by this weekend, it’s pretty much ready, just needs some fine tuning for error codes and such.

Could not copy file. ewww-image-optimizer/jpegtran-linux

Don’t know what does this means but it wont let me install plugin ??
Tried to comeback to this plugin after 6months. Still issues?

Please let me know if you have any fix.
Thanks!

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