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lorenzov

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3:25 am May 29, 2009

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hi guys,

i've read the faq and a few messages with a similar issue, but after trying a number of variations i'm stuck… i'm pretty sure that i need to tweak the uri or the absolute path, but maybe i'm just being daft and can't see where i'm making an error.

i'm using WP 2.7.1 and cforms 1.5. in the admin area of cforms i'm getting a warning:

"It seems that your ROOT directory for Wordpress is /main. cforms tried to auto-adjust its settings accordingly, however if you still encounter issues with Ajax (form submission & CAPTCHA reset) please open the file js/cforms.js in your cforms plugin folder and check the sajax_uri variable. (After changing the file, please emtpy your browser cache!)"

this should be alerting me that something might not work. in fact ajax doesn't do what it's supposed to (even when trying to install the presets in the admin panel), however things seem fine!

in the abspath.php it reads:

<?php $abspath = '/home/myName/public_html/main/'; ?>

in the cforms.js it says:

var sajax_uri = 'http://mysite.com/main/wp-content/plugins/lib_ajax.php';

as you can guess the WP installation is in the /main subfolder.

could you suggest how to change this to make it work?

many thanks, lorenzo

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lorenzov

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6:46 pm May 29, 2009

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dear all,

this will be useful for some bashing their heads with AJAX failing with apparently no reason.

after checking the details of the sajax_uri (my reccomendation is to use the full URL which in my case above was incorrect (/cforms/ missing):

http://mysite.com/main/wp-cont…..b_ajax.php

delete the abspath.php, then de-activate and re-activate the plugin.

in my case i had another issue which was unexpected and i didn't notice before: when you ftp the files, depending on how you do it, permissions might change.

the first time i've updated from 1.4 to 1.5 i simply copied the new folder on top of the old one and the permission was reset from 755 to 777.seemingly innocuous (apart for the security issue of opening a folder to the planet!)

my isp (hostmonster.com) doesn't actually permit 777 and sensibly block any action. the plugin failed returning a 500 error behind the scenes (no error is appearing though, only seems to hang on submission and other things not working as they should).

it is as stupid as it can get, but by changing/checking permissions all is working fine!

hopefully this will save time to someone! Surprised