White Screen of Death. Everytime.

Robots.txt actually sorted itself out, not sure if it was saving settings on a theme, or what, but no error now.

As for the permission settings, I’m not 100%, but it may have been my error the entire time. I set up the VPS a few months ago, and learned a tremendous amount in that week (came from shared hosting, zero experience with servers). I likely set the group / owner to www-data:www-data (the user who executes php), when learning how to make it work. I don’t remember doing this, but it was information overload, so I likely did it once, and never again, until the update failed, and I had to re-install from scratch, thus set folder permissions again. Stuart told me it had to be that user because of the writing to the cache directory, which makes sense.

The only real issue I see at this point, is troubleshooting the error. Calling render() on a non-object is a pretty bizarre error for something permission related. I know how crazy errors can be, but any better handling of that situation could save people a lot of time.

That being said, my issues (pertaining to installing), are all sorted, so this can be marked as resolved.

I have the same problem myself and it sounds like a permission error so what should the permission be for the directories.

I had to ensure that everything had www:data as the group / owner. www:data is what executes the actual php on my VPS (digital ocean), so it was unable to create the cache before, as any non-www:data user wasn’t allowed to create the directory.

If www:data isn’t the user that executes php for you, there are ways to find out (not sure on them off hand), and you’ll need to change them to that. Also note that your plugins folder itself needs to be www:data, and not just the ai1ec folder / files.

Hello,

i also have the “White screen of death” error after the ai1ec installation. The Plugin crashed my whole page and admin panel. I have do delete the plugin-folder via ft.

When i activate the debug mode, i get this error:

[25-Jan-2015 11:39:41 UTC] All-in-One Event Calendar: mkdir(): Permission denied @ /var/www/vhosts/myhomepagename.de/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/vendor/twig/Environment.php:1243 #2

What folder should i create?

The folder which should be writable is the cache folder under the plugin root. When you get this error, do you have AI1EC_DEBUG enabled?can you open a new thread?

Just change permission to
root/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/cache folder to 777, and everything should be ok.

Hi Operaatoor,

this fixed my problem. Thank you !!!! But why is it not possible to create the plugin so that the normal installation via the WordPress plugin site runs without problems like tons of other plugins?

Regards & thanks!!!

Hi quast, of course we DO NOT want to cause this, we hope to address errors like this in upcoming 2.2 release