Troubleshooting the Unexpected HTTP Error

  • Resolved reef12

    (@reef12)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    I just did a clean install of WordPress on my server. On the dashboard or trying to find plugins from the admin I get the ‘An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request’ error which has been bugging some other people here as well. Whether plugins are active or not.

    However when I do exact same install on a different server of a different hosting company it works fine.

    I tried adjusting the timeout in http.php from 5 seconds to 30 and 0 for unlimited as suggested by various sources. This had no effect except making me wait longer for the error message.

    Does anybody have any idea how to troubleshoot this?

    Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter reef12

    (@reef12)

    Well I managed to solve the problem or so it seems. Apparantly in my case the WordPress cURL transport method needed a ‘reset’.

    Here is what worked for me:
    In another thread I found a reference to the Core Control plugin which allows http debugging and tweaking. I installed it and disabled cURL.

    Then everything started working again. When I later enabled cURL again it kept working.

    No idea why exactly but it seems the plugin solved the problem.

    This might work. All the advice to update my htaccess was not helping. I run my blog on a windows server. This is how I fixed this HTTP error problem.

    With in your Dashboard go to Settings and then Miscellaneous Setting.

    For some reason my hosting site automatically added this to the Store upload files path.

    (/home/users/web/b2284/ipw.livingproofbc/nt/blog/wp-content/uploads)

    I deleted it all and replaced it with

    wp-content/uploads (just as recommend.) (Also make sure you have a uploads file in your wp-content folder)

    Now IT WORKS!

    This only took me 8 hours of tweaking to get it to work. Hope this works for you.

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