Hi,

On http://www.ocmw-info-cpas.be/ you can see an EE site working good.
This site is online since over two years.

Now yesterday the webmaster of the this site I build says she can’t log in to the control panel (http://www.ocmw-info-cpas.be/systeemfiles/index.php).

I tried it myself and I can’t log in to the control panel as well. This is obviously a major problem.

I searched the forum for answers but did not find one that had the solution. I also tried this solution by Lisa Wess (http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/79243/) but then I get this error:

”
Warning: pmachine_news_feed(/home/ocmwinf/public_html/systeemfiles/plugins/pi.magpie.php) [function.pmachine-news-feed]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ocmwinf/public_html/systeemfiles/cp/cp.home.php on line 1143

Fatal error: pmachine_news_feed() [function.require]: Failed opening required ’/home/ocmwinf/public_html/systeemfiles/plugins/pi.magpie.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/ocmwinf/public_html/systeemfiles/cp/cp.home.php on line 1143”

Can somebody help me with this problem? I really don’t have a clue.

Grtz,

Bart Houben

You could turn off the newsfeed check for all users via a query-

Or- just your member id to see if that’s the actual issue:

That assumes 1 is your member id.

No way to tell for sure if that’s what was causing the initial problem, though.  Removing it caused the error.

What build/version are you running?  And did anything else change?  If it was running fine before and just broke, it suggests a change somewhere.  (Though the newsfeed could cause this).

Hi Robin,

Thanks for the fast answer.

Where should I put that query or what should I do with it?

My hosting provider told me nothing changed on the server…

Do you have phpmyadmin?  This will be a direct db manipulation- but a minor one.  It will basically turn off the feed for all existing members.

But yep- phpmyadmin or something similar.  Might want to do a quick backup before proceeding- at least of the exp_member_homepage table.

Hi Robin,

That did the trick! Thanks a lot!

Any ideas why this happened right now?

Weird- no, I just checked on one of my installs- cleared magpie cache manually and refreshed the home page- pulls the feed in ok.

So- either it’s a short term blip where your site can’t make contact.  OR something changed server side that won’t allow the connection to be made.  I would put the magpie folders back in there- and if I had time, might use the plugin on the frontend w/some different sites- see if it can pull from them.  The goal would be to figure out whether magpie works at all- or if it’s just borking on the EE feed.

Heh- that make sense?

Just to let everyone know, We had the same problem this morning.  Disabled news feeds and everything came back nicely.  Version 1.5.1.

martymix, thanks for letting us know, but you really should upgrade…