Situation: I had an issue today when I was trying to upgrade the “WordPress Mobile Pack” plugin from WordPress. The wp-admin page remained blank so I was wondering something went wrong. I tried to delete the WMP plug-in and re-install it, but it was still the same problem.
Action: After I read the error_logs under my website folder, I grabbed the information as follows:
2014/06/05 16:00:26 [error] 13539#0: *1 FastCGI sent in stderr: “PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /****/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-mobile-pack/core/class-admin.php on line 41″ while reading response header from upstream, client: 108.162.249.186, server: www.blog.bjdch.org, request: “GET /wp-admin/ HTTP/1.1”, upstream: “fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000”, host: “blog.bjdch.org”
I made a note on official website to let them know:
There were multiple error_logs but they just got repetitively. It said that curl_init() is undefined. Now everything came to a turning point.
Result: I did some research and I realised that CURL is a function of PHP so I need to get it installed.
sudo apt-get install php5-curl
However, I tried to restart the php5-fpm and Nginx service in Debian but nothing happened (I got a PHP probe installed to check whether the module installed correctly). I tried to reboot the machine and everything was working again!
Hint: Do NOT try to edit the php.ini (put “extension=curl.so“) after you get curl module installed. The module package will automatically put a file called “20-curl.ini” under /etc/php5/cgi/conf.d so the curl module will start with the program.
The probe program is found to be very useful during troubleshooting, however you can use phpinfo instead.
05/06/2014
Install curl Module under Nginx+FastCGI （Nginx+FastCGI环境安装curl插件）
By dch1 in Web Log No Comments Tags: VPS, Web Design
Situation: I had an issue today when I was trying to upgrade the “WordPress Mobile Pack” plugin from WordPress. The wp-admin page remained blank so I was wondering something went wrong. I tried to delete the WMP plug-in and re-install it, but it was still the same problem.
Action: After I read the error_logs under my website folder, I grabbed the information as follows:
I made a note on official website to let them know:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/makes-my-wp-admin-page-because-of-a-php-error-in-the-plugin-files
There were multiple error_logs but they just got repetitively. It said that curl_init() is undefined. Now everything came to a turning point.
Result: I did some research and I realised that CURL is a function of PHP so I need to get it installed.
However, I tried to restart the php5-fpm and Nginx service in Debian but nothing happened (I got a PHP probe installed to check whether the module installed correctly). I tried to reboot the machine and everything was working again!
Hint: Do NOT try to edit the php.ini (put “extension=curl.so“) after you get curl module installed. The module package will automatically put a file called “20-curl.ini” under /etc/php5/cgi/conf.d so the curl module will start with the program.
The probe program is found to be very useful during troubleshooting, however you can use phpinfo instead.