[TYPO3] Ext Manager problems

Ronald Wiplinger ronald at elmit.com
Sun Apr 13 14:45:44 CEST 2008


Francois Suter wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>> Error: The extension MD5 sum could not be fetched from
>> http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtmlextensions.md5. Possible reasons:
>> network problems, allow_url_fopen is off, curl is not enabled in Install
>> tool.
>>
>> How can I solve it?
>>     
>
> Well, the explanation is in the very text that you are quoting. Either 
> you have a network problem, either you need to enable allow_url_fopen in 
> your PHP configuration or you need to have curl on the server with the 
> PHP curl library. The latter is the better solution, as allow_url_fopen 
> may cause some security issues (I'm not sure which actually, but I know 
> ISPs are reluctant to enable it).
>
> HTH
>   

Wrong!
I do not know how the line came in, but when I removed the reference to
THAT (bogus) mirror, it worked AGAIN.
All the quoted possible reasons would only be "possible" true, if it
would never worked before.

This lines you deleted in above quote:
> Connect to the current mirror and retrieve the current list of available
> plugins from the TYPO3 Extension Repository.
> (last update: 06-04-08 19:34)
>   

Glad, we found the problem. Thanks for thinking with me.


bye

Ronald


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