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Oh, I’m glad it works for you finally. Thanks for being persistent.

One last issue – hah that’s funny. That “one last issue” basically means the plugin isn’t working at all. You are very patient.

ok, I looked, and the link you are using for your skydrive doc is of a different form than I had seen previously. I’ve modified the pattern-matching so that the plugin will detect the form you are using, as well as the form I have seen in other cases.

Once again I posted an update to the cheeso URL and I’ll be interested to hear from you if it finally works for you.

Whoops – that was not right. I saw another problem that would occur with the admin form if you do not have mcrypt (as in your case). I just fixed that and posted it to the cheeso url .

I think / hope that should be the last change.

Well that is good news. I’m glad it installed properly and is activated. Next question: is it working?

As for the admin settings – yes, well. In my efforts to figure out the problem you were encountering, I changed a bunch of things and one of the changes introduced that problem with the amdin form. Not a critical problem, and I had seen it before. Actually the latest zip downloadable from www.ads-software.com does not have the problem.

In a moment, I’ll post an update to the cheeso URL which will eliminate that problem as well.

Ok, I looked into it.

I have put together a modified version of the plugin that removes the hard dependency on mcrypt.

Try it and see. It is at the same cheeso url.

let me know.

Bingo.

Can you enable mcrypt on your php install?

I’ll want to make the plugin more resilient in the face of such conditions.

Not sure how easy it would be to remove the mcrypt() dependency completely. It’s there to prevent external access to the ajax resource.

I’ll look into it.

Hmmmmm….

I don’t know, I would have to guess. I’ve done a code inspection but didn’t see any likely culprits.

Let’s just check some basic things.

• It uses WordPress features that started with v3.3, so if you are on an older version of WordPress, that could be the cause of it. It actually tests for versions prior to 3.3, and will stop running if it finds that.
• it uses some features of PHP that started with v5.2. I think possibly v5.2.17, but not certain. If you are on a back-rev of PHP, that could be the problem.
• it uses PHP CRYPT (BLOWFISH). If you don’t have that it would fail.

If those basic requirements are satisfied, the next thing I would do, if I were trying to figure this out, is turn on debug mode in WordPress. Do this by modifying the wp-config.php file, which should be in the root of your wordpress installation. There will be a line that looks like:

define('WP_DEBUG', false);

Edit that and replace “false” with “true” (no quotes). See also https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Debugging_in_WordPress This will not fix anything, but it will provide some additional diagnsotic information that may aid in determnining the problem.

I just updated the plugin to add more diagnostic messages. Download it again (same cheeso location) and re-try, if you’re game.

no, that’s embarassing.

ok, if you please, download from this location again:

https://cheeso.members.winisp.net/source/wp/plugins/skydrv-hotlink/skydrv-hotlink-wp-plugin.zip

MD5: 57F860A5C907054CE074C06E9ED7D75B
SHA1: 3AF0338027FD4EF0BCA8C17F114FF9D2910EBD2D

it should activate this time. :/

You can try installing this:

https://cheeso.members.winisp.net/source/wp/plugins/skydrv-hotlink/skydrv-hotlink-wp-plugin.zip

It’s the latest version.

MD5: BFABAB84D234D8B6124ABB0199147E81
SHA1: 96A487F09255C92692F4D51DEA00845E033338F3

Well I was able to run the scraper from your site, with no problem.

It didn’t DO anything, but it didn’t throw an error or freeze or deliver partial output. so that looks ok.

I requested https://server/wp-content/plugins/skydrv-hotlink/scraper.php and … no problem.

Doing the similar thing for the skydrv-hotlink.php script, caused a failure.

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When you said you “tried the file again”… did you get the latest version of the skydrv-hotlink download? Maybe the version you have is corrupted.

I’m glad you resolved it. Were you able to look at the files?

I’m wondering if they were transferred intact, or if one of them was somehow corrupted during install.

It’s just so unusual. I’ve seen cases where a problem with a plugin causes an unpleasant error message, but never saw a case where it would just flatten the site.

Not sure if you’re game for it, but the plugin has been updated since the version you tried to install. Consider giving it another shot.

No, it looks like the administrative piece is hosed, too.
Wow. I’ve never seen that before.

I can’t imagine how this plugin could cause such problems.

Is it possible to use the wp-admin backend?
( https://rivetr.com/wp-admin )

Or is that completely hosed too?

It’s too bad that you don’t have FTP access. That would be the easiest way to yank it.

Well that’s unfortunate, I’m sorry to hear you’re having trouble.
I looked at your site, and I can definitely see that there’s a problem with the skydrive hotlink plugin.

I don’t know what the problem might be.

One way to eliminate the plugin is to remove the .php file . This may not require SSH – you could do it via FTP and you could do it via a file explorer if your hoster provides that kind of access.

the file is …wp-content/plugins/skydrv-hotlink/skydrv-hotlink.php

I can’t tell what the problem is, but if you want me to look further into it, I can give it a shot.