I cannot connect Lightroom to the website on my local development server

Hello,

That messages shows up after testing not only your connection to the plugin but also to your website in general. Seems like Lightroom can’t even access it at all. Why? I am not sure, it’s the first time I see someone who can’t access a website through the plugin locally. Are you sure about the URL? Sorry for the simple question but this is really strange. Try with a remote website as a test too.

Hi,

I am successfully using the plugin with a remote website.

Just exactly what I was hoping for, in combination with WP Media Folders.
I am on it only from a few hours and I still need to make the best of its functionality, but I am loving it! Great job there!

I’d still like to be able to use it on a local website (i.e. served from Apache running in my laptop)

That’s very weird. Connection is also completely handled by Lightroom API. It seems like Lightroom cannot connect to your local installs, maybe you force all your apps to use a proxy? Are you using maybe a VPN or something? I have no idea, I am trying to find a cause to this. Of course the plugin works perfectly with local installs, I am working on local installs all the time (for development and testing).

I am working on a Mac right now, but at home I can try from a Windows machine.

Do you know if those kind of issues are logged in either one of the two systems?

I didn’t really spend much time looking around, but I couldn’t find a log file for Lightroom… the error message I get is not very helpful in understanding what could be wrong.

Anyway knowing that it should work gives me hope; I will try again.

The issue doesn’t depend on the system, it is something with your configuration. I use it on Windows but mainly on OSX. It works just exactly the same.

I am curious, what is your local “URL”?

https://mydomain.dev/wp/

while the working remote URL is:
https://mydomain.com/wp/

now that I think about it… the SSL certificate I use locally is not signed for that domain… that might be it.
I did add it as exception in the browser where I develop, but it might prevent Lightroom to establish a connection.
Just a suspect… I will try again after I have a ssl certificate issued for my local dev domain.

I’ll update here my findings.

Yeah, https on your localhost is very weird already ?? Try without https, and also try without a domain, but directly your IP or even “localhost”.

localhost gives me this message:

URL could not be found. Check your URL and XML/RPC handler settings.

localhost works from a browser, but it is not a WP website.

I did also just try on a WP installation that is not under ssl and I get this error:

Got an error from WP. Please check your PHP logs (on server) and WP/LR logs (on your computer).

I did check error.log and there was this error message:
PHP Deprecated: Automatically populating $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. To avoid this warning set ‘always_populate_raw_post_data’ to ‘-1’ in php.ini and use the php://input stream instead. in Unknown on line 0

I did set always_populate_raw_post_data = -1 as advised and then it worked.

I still cannot connect to my https installation, but that might really be because of the invalid certificate… I will do more testing later.

thank you for all the support!

Yes, it doesn’t work because of the certificate, I am quite sur of it ?? I had to get a certificate for my website to actually make it work too ??

yeah, I have no doubts.

I had no time to look into it again, as it works with my remote server and I am all busy filling up the website as I am way overdue with it.

thank you for the support!

Hi Jordy,

unfortunately I get this message, too.:

The Internet connection works but your website seems down. Please double-check the URL and try to access it directly.

I have setup a new domain at a new hoster (wolkenbauer.com). I already have a website at Hostinger where everything works fine.

I setup the plugin for the new website and I can login into the site from the plugin. But when I try to transfer photos I get this error.

Any ideas how to solve this?

Thanks a lot,

Markus

Hi Jordy,

just tried again. Logged out and tried to login again but without success. The URL is definitely correct, I checked it three or four times.

From the first trial the collection I created in Lightroom was also created in WordPress so the connection worked. But there are no photos in it.

What can I do?

Thanks again,

Markus

Hi Markus,

The Internet connection works but your website seems down.

That message means that the plugin can’t even ping your website URL. That doesn’t use anything in the plugin, that just does a ping from Lightroom. I am not sure what’s going on but it seems the website can’t be reach at all from LR.

Do you mind if I try?

Hi Jordy,

but the collection was already created…

You may try, that’s not a problem. I have created a user Jordy but I don’t want to write the password into the forum. How can I send it to you?

Hi Jordy,

do you see any chance to try? I would really like to use the plugin on the new website.

Thanks a lot,

Markus