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Cameron,
I have been looking into your issue, our dev team uses localhost to build the plugins and has successfully been using the Facebook Importer in a local environment. In experimenting with xampp (we do not actively use this particular packager) it seems that if you have a local firewall (either in your router or most likely software) that it will block the handoffs for working with the Facebook API. If you are on a Windows machine – it might be helpful to check the Apache HTTP on the Windows firewall settings. I have found that Bitnami makes a nice cross platform virtualized environment (pre installed with WP) for quick dev testing that can easily be configured to work within your security parameters of the OS+network. The downloader can be found here: http://bitnami.org/stack/wordpressI would love to know if this resolves your issue.
Cheers,
TimThanks Tim. I’ll give it a shot. I might not get to it for a few days. When I do, I’ll post my results.
Hey Cameron, I just wanted to check in to see if you’ve had a chance to try out Tim’s suggestion? Please let us know.
Thanks,
– JonahThere is an exception for Apache HTTP in my Windows Firewall.
Installed WordPress using Bitnami. Its own Apache HTTP exception was added to the Windows Firewall. Importing events didn’t work. Same error as before.
I’m looking into how to check my router’s firewall settings now.
Cameron,
I used bitnami a while back as my local dev VM and it worked fine (I’m on OSX) so I am not sure if there’s a handoff limitation on the Windows version. I am curious that you used bitnami for the install since you’re using xampp can you give me more details as the distinction between the two?Cheers,
TimI’m running Vista 64. Xampp is what I use for local development. I have several WordPress sites setup through that.
Today I installed WordPress using Bitnami. I don’t even really know what Bitnami is. I thought you were recommending that I try it.
Oh I see, yes I do like Bitnami for this case (just tried on an Windows 8 box) and it was working fine. I was just confused in that I thought you were using xampp and Bitnami already prior to my recommendation. So far other tests with xampp on my have not had any issue with importing events so I don’t know if it’s xampp’s issue but maybe some handoff on the localhost or local network causing the issue. Recently we have noticed issues with Windows Azure (MicroSoft cloud server option) and our Facebook Events plugin that it reports the same issue you are.
Well since importing events didn’t work on Bitnami either, it seems more likely that it’s the localhost or local network causing the issue (Based on what you’ve said. This is outside my body of knowledge).
I’ll trying plugging directly into my modem so that we can rule out router firewall issues.
One thing to also check is to see if cURL is disabled. Create a file in your site root `info.php` and put ` < ?php phpinfo();` in it and then open that file in your browser. Search the display for 'curl' and see what the settings are for that. If it is disabled look at your php.ini config file for the server and see if you can find where it's been commented out.
“curl” was not found on the phpinfo() page I setup.
In php.ini, all I found for curl was “;extension=php_curl.dll”. I removed the leading semi colon, saved, and reloaded the phpinfo() page. “curl” is still not found in the text on that page.Let me mess around with this more. Apparently I have to restart Apache before that change would have taken effect.
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