TubePress: WordPress Plugin for YouTube Download & Import Videos

Aug
26
URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration
Posted by Mario Mansour in TubePress

It has came to my attention that some of you are having problems running TubePress.NET on their hosting servers.
If you are getting Warning Messages like this one
Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/wp-content/plugins/tubepress.net/tubepress.php on line 384
Where xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is the path to the wordpress installation on your server

This means that your server configuration is blocking external file access, which in consequence blocks TubePress from accessing Youtube.
Solution:
allow_url_fopen should be ON in PHP configuration (php.ini). Probably, you don’t have access to edit this file and it could also be that your hosting company has restricted changing the allow_url_fopen value. In this case, you should refer to them and ask them to set the value of allow_url_fopen to ON.

On my side, TubePress will try to change the value of allow_url_fopen but if this action is restricted, it will ask you to contact your web hosting provider.

4 Responses to “URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration”

  1. Gary Says:

    Thanks for the reply.

    It is not an option for me to use this - is there any adjustment that can be made to the code to allow compatibility with shared hosting, since many wordpress users utilize shared hosting?

  2. Mark RObertson Says:

    I added to my php.ini file and still not working.

  3. Mark RObertson Says:

    What about this problem that I am all of a sudden getting?

    Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/content/s/e/o/seoreel/html/wp-content/plugins/tubepress.net/tubepress.php on line 441

  4. Venkadesan Tharshan Says:

    thanks

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