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Updating to say this appears to have fixed itself. One day I looked at the display and the test calendar was working, so I added the others and they worked too.
Mysterious…

hmm, still having issues. With a Google calendar link AMR iCal Events says ‘unexpected data’ and sure enough using Curl there seems to be a redirect.

With a ‘Webcal’ link AMR iCal Events says ‘No cached events. No route to host. Unable to download via HTPP or Curl’
(assume this should say ‘HTTP’)
as follows-
No cached ical file for events<br />No route to host</br> Error getting calendar file with htpp or curl https://p01-calendarws.icloud.com/ca/subscribe/1/redacted”&gt;!<br>Unable to load or cache ical calendar webcal://p01-calendarws.icloud.com/ca/subscribe/1/redacted<div id=”events_wrap” ></div>

Error message revealed that the plugin was calling ‘gregoriantojd()’ which is a function of a PHP extension called ‘Calendar’
A bunch of sites claim that this is enabled by default, and perhaps it is in PHP 5.6 but it wasn’t on my 2 test sites using PHP 7.1
– one was cpanel based, and the other was WordPress on Synology

For cpanel the fix was to go to WHM and use EasyApache to recompile with the Calendar extension included.
https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.calendar.php
For Synology you need to edit .htaccess to enable switching PHP versions
https://servicemax.com.au/news/synology-wordpress-php-configuration/
then you need to click the checkbox to enable the Calendar extension in your chosen PHP version
https://mariushosting.com/synology-php-7-2-settings-and-extensions-for-wordpress/

Can you please list this as a requirement of your plugin to save time in troubleshooting.

Hi Anmari,
Thanks for that very useful suggestion. After turning on wp-debug, here is the error I got-

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function gregoriantojd() in /home/adamsara/public_html/wp-content/plugins/amr-ical-events-list/includes/amr-ical-events-list-main.php:476 Stack trace: #0 /home/adamsara/public_html/wp-content/plugins/amr-ical-events-list/includes/amr-ical-events-list-main.php(514): amr_daysDifference(Object(DateTime), Object(DateTime)) #1 /home/adamsara/public_html/wp-content/plugins/amr-ical-events-list/includes/amr-ical-events-list-main.php(652): amr_calc_duration(Object(DateTime), Object(DateTime)) #2 /home/adamsara/public_html/wp-content/plugins/amr-ical-events-list/includes/amr-ical-events-list-main.php(1455): amr_derive_dates(Array) #3 /home/adamsara/public_html/wp-content/plugins/amr-ical-events-list/includes/amr-ical-events-list-main.php(1702): amr_process_icalevents(Array, Object(DateTime), Object(DateTime), 30) #4 /home/adamsara/public_html/wp-content/plugins/amr-ical-events-list/includes/amr-ical-events-list-main.php(2218): amr_process_icalspec(Array, Object(DateTime), Object(DateT in /home/adamsara/public_html/wp-content/plugins/amr-ical-events-list/includes/amr-ical-events-list-main.php on line 476

So I guess it’s having trouble with the way my time is set up?

just to be clear- there is a close bracket on my code pasted into the test site- don’t know why it is missing here…

Hi Anmari,
Once again thank you for your help.
I do feel like I’m going crazy – I must be missing something basic.
I’ve checked and ‘allow_url_fopen’ is turned on for both servers in php

Yet I still can’t get a single event to display on either website.

I’ve created a test Google Calendar with a couple of events, here is the url-
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/eft3a0t7v5l4hqaeudc3r2sln4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
here is the public URL of the test calendar
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=eft3a0t7v5l4hqaeudc3r2sln4%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Australia%2FSydney

I’ve created a new page on a site, gone to the code section and pasted this-
[ical https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/eft3a0t7v5l4hqaeudc3r2sln4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics%5D

post, save and go to the page which is at
https://adamsarah.com/?page_id=36

and… nothing.

Please let me know if you see anything wrong here, or let me know how I can diagnose further, thank you.

thanks for the reply, and thanks for checking the link.

Were you testing the Google one or the other one I supplied?

If the problem is at my end, how do I diagnose please?
Are there logs anywhere?

I’ve done just about everything on the troubleshooting page.
When I find the answer I’ll be sure to report back, thanks again

Thanks again for your assistance. That did the trick- it was fairly simple to edit php.ini although ‘allow_url_fopen’ was off and should have been on by default, so not quite sure what went wrong there.

Really appreciate the support on the free version of the software, so much so that I will investigate paying for it!

Thanks again

Adam

Thanks so much for the in depth instructions. I was able to clear out all the old backups after copying to a local drive. I couldn’t select multiples but I guess that’s a Mac vs PC issue.
‘Rescan Remote Storage’ gave me no backups, so I started a new backup that went ok until the upload stage, here is the error message-

0042.541 (0) Beginning dispatch of backup to remote (googledrive)
0042.541 (0) Google Drive: requesting access token: client_id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.apps.googleusercontent.com
0042.875 (0) Google Drive: successfully obtained access token
0042.882 (0) Exception (Google_IO_Exception) occurred during files backup: The stream IO handler requires the allow_url_fopen runtime configuration to be enabled (Code: 0, line 51 in /home/XXXXX/public_html/wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/includes/Google/IO/Stream.php)
0042.883 (0) An error condition has occurred for the first time during this job

Looks like I am nearly there, any further assistance would be much appreciated.

Sorry that should read ‘Google Drive’ and ‘deletion process’ should read ‘restore process’

in the end I did not use this plugin. I wanted to share my run details and apparently WordPress now allows iframes, so if you

1. go to your activity on Strava
2. next to the Facebook and twitter buttons there is a triangle shaped button with an option to ’embed on blog’
3. copy this html and paste it into the ‘text’ display on WordPress

here’s what it looks like, about 1/3 of the way down this page under the heading ‘Day 1’

https://run.dj/?p=1436

well, as I had the first suggested link in my question and had already reviewed the second suggestion and discarded it, I decided to suck it up and have a go myself. Here is the answer.

Follow the instructions in the ‘changing the site url’ article above to change the ‘WordPress address’ and the ‘site address’. That is all- ignore the complicated stuff under that!

At this point I lost contact with the site, and after editing a redirect I had set up in cpanel, eventually managed to log back in at

servicemax.com.au/wp-login.php

I then installed this plugin
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/

and had the image urls and other all updated in about 2 seconds. I hope this information helps someone else, thank you.

thank you t-p, do you mean that the link you posted is the best/ most appropriate method? Or did you simply post the link without checking out my other links?

follow up- the host has now admitted that it is their setup causing the failure. I apologise if I seemed to be getting cranky about this. Very frustrating for all concerned. looking forward to seeing the new version, but it looks like I may still not be able to use it. Sigh.

I am hoping that an update will fix this issue.

Today I tried to back up to
Sugarsync> same problem
Google Storage> documentation non existent/ couldn’t get auth
FTP server> FTP server would not load properly/ my problem!

I have given up. Hosting company has given up too, saying ‘we do not support third party products’ but they did try.

Such a pity, this plugin has so much promise. Google Drive compatibility and proper documentation and support could make this into a worthwhile purchase! Hint, hint