Bron

My site is running on Azure – so probably IIS under the hood.

Hi Bron, can you confirm that you were having the “Unable to connect to the Disqus API servers” issue with plugin version 2.85, and not 2.83. Thanks for reporting this issue.

Yes I can confirm that.

Now I’ve just upgraded to 2.85 and it’s still working, but I’m not game to disconnect it as would assume the same issue would arise on reconnecting it again ??

I just found that grabbing version 2.83 works (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/disqus-comment-system/developers/), so may be a suitable workaround for now, at least for me as I’m on my way to moving to another platform, anyway).

Hi, same issue here, too, and not a multisite install. I’m running on Azure. I have confirmed I have no issues connecting to the API using curl (assuming this is the right way to do this, I’m fairly new to curl usage):

> curl https://disqus.com:80
D:\home\site\wwwroot
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:– 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:– 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:– 0

I’m in need of this functionality at the moment, as well, did anyone find a way to do this with existing WP-Polls functionality, or was it difficult to customise the plugin to add this?

Hi,

Did you manage to solve your issue? I’m having the same problem at the moment and it seems to be a very difficult search phrase for googling an answer!

Thanks

OK I have given in and set “error_log = syslog” to allow the installation to continue, and so far it seems OK.

But clearly there is an underlying issue here that I hope will be investigated – as JJRose said, maybe they are looking into the issue before replying about it, but it’s been a week since it was originally reported and an issue like that in an installation would seem pretty important to fix…

Thanks all for your help.

Thanks for trying to assist, brianurbanik. Unfortunately in my case, WP still hasn’t installed after getting that error message – no tables have been created at all in the database.

I’m having this issue at the moment, while trying to install WordPress 2.6.2 on my Vista machine.

Has anyone managed to resolve this issue, or have a workaround?

I’m using Vista (SP1) with IIS7, PHP 5.2.6 via FastCGI, with MySQL 5.0.45.

Thanks,
Bron