Installing plugins from Spartacus gives error

accampbell · Post by **accampbell** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:11 am

I'm new to Serendipity (refugee from Wordpress!) so apologies if this is answered somewhere.

I installed some plugins from Spartacus but the following error appears:

No route to host in /users/a/acampbell/website/serendipity/bundled-libs/PEAR.php on line 848

Is this a permissions problem perhaps, or a bug?

Anthony

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:48 am

Hi!

This error comes from the PEAR HTTP_Request facility that is used to fetch files over the web. Sadly the errors are not very verbose.

Which Serendipity version are you using? In older ones, the SF.Net mirror was configured, but SourceForge changed their URL so the old one would be invalid by now. Using "Netmirror" as the mirror in the spartacus plugin configuration should work though.

Another reason for thsi error might be that your provider is firewalling outgoing requests?

Best regards,
Garvin

accampbell · Post by **accampbell** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:41 am

This is the latest version of Serendipity. I suppose they might be firewallilng the request; I don't know.

Is it possible to download the plugins and install them manually?

Anthony

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:39 am

Hi!

Yes, you can do that. Just go to http://spartacus.s9y.org/ and download the ZIP files there!

Best regards,
Garvin

accampbell · Post by **accampbell** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:55 pm

Thanks - that's fine. Just one more question: is there a plugin or other way to let me cross-reference related posts or do I have to do this manually? I mean, put in some references such as "See also ....".

Anthony

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:10 pm

Hi!

There actually are two plugins that go near that.

The first one is the "freetag" plugin. It can associate similar entries by similar tags.

The second one is the "Related entries/links" Plugin, which allows you to enter a list of related entries.

Or, you could also turn your entries into some kind of wiki interlinking by using the "Free Wiki Links" plugin with which you can easily just enter a list if [[entry]], [[entry2]] links into your article, which links by entry title.

HTH,
Garvin

accampbell · Post by **accampbell** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:16 pm

Excellent - thanks for the prompt replies.

Anthony

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