Title: Cannot Activate
Last modified: September 7, 2021

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# Cannot Activate

 *  Resolved [cambofrizz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cambofrizz/)
 * (@cambofrizz)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-56/)
 * Unfortunately, there seems to be something terribly wrong with this plugin. While
   trying to activate it, the admin plugin page freezes and I get the message “This
   site can’t be reached”. When reloading the plug-in page, the plug-in is not activated.
 * I manually activated the plugin, and for a short time it shows the activated 
   status, but there’s no ‘Weather’ menu item and after a few seconds the same as
   above happens.

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 *  Plugin Author [Uwe Jacobs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uwejacobs/)
 * (@uwejacobs)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-56/#post-14868311)
 * Hi cambofrizz,
 * The plugin is running without any issues on several life pages. Do you have a
   way to turn on the WordPress Debug mode or install a debug plugin?
 *  Thread Starter [cambofrizz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cambofrizz/)
 * (@cambofrizz)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-56/#post-14868874)
 * Just FYI: I’m trying to install this on a localserver development website. The
   website is a clean WP install with no other plugins activated. WP_DEBUG shows
   nothing, no log file is created.
 * As the error message is a connection issue, I suspect the problem may have to
   do with my local SSL certificate, which of course is a ‘self-signed’ one. I’m
   using Laragon as the local server environment. I never had a problem activating
   plugins on this local SSL certificate, but I know this sometimes gives problems.
 * I tried to remove the SSL and just use http instead of https, but that gave the
   same result.
 * And you are right: on a live server I had no problem installing the plugin, so
   it definitely has something to do with localserver. Which, by the way, is important
   to me for developing websites.
    -  This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by [cambofrizz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cambofrizz/).
 *  Thread Starter [cambofrizz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cambofrizz/)
 * (@cambofrizz)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-56/#post-14868948)
 * I just installed the original plugin (WP Cloudy) and that gave no error on activation
   or in use. But that one of course is very old and also doesn’t use ‘onecall’ 
   as far as I can see.
 *  Plugin Author [Uwe Jacobs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uwejacobs/)
 * (@uwejacobs)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-56/#post-14872396)
 * The switch to ‘onecall’ was the main motivation to pick up the otherwise excellent
   WP Cloudy and start a new plugin.
    When I have a minute, I will setup a new virtual
   box with Laragon and try it out myself.
 *  Thread Starter [cambofrizz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cambofrizz/)
 * (@cambofrizz)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-56/#post-14872969)
 * I just did a fresh install of XAMPP and WordPress: unfortunately got the same
   result when trying to activate the plug-in. So, it seems not related to Laragon
   but to localhost in general.
 *  Plugin Author [Uwe Jacobs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uwejacobs/)
 * (@uwejacobs)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-56/#post-14875961)
 * I installed Laragon and was able to reproduce the activation issue. It boiled
   down to the ‘echo()’ display for the weather page options. This has grown quite
   a bit compared to WP Cloudy and Laragon just chocked on it without any error 
   log. After changing the echo() to ob_start() / ob_get_clean(), the activation
   finishes in Laragon. Please install the updated version 5.0.2 and let me know
   in case you have any further issues.
 *  Thread Starter [cambofrizz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cambofrizz/)
 * (@cambofrizz)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-56/#post-14876890)
 * Thank you very much, that worked!
    You have made a fantastic plug-in, I really
   like it.
 * A few remarks:
    It seems the icon set-up needs attention, as the current weather
   icons always load Climacons, regardless of the Icon Pack settings. Also, with
   some other pack settings (e.g. Weather Icons), the temperature units are not 
   displayed and in the forecast the condition icons are missing, too. Not sure 
   if it is related, but why is there no ‘default’ choice in the individual weather
   Icons Pack setting?
 * Also, the hourly forecast in the table setting ignores the setting in ‘Number
   of hours’ and displays the standard 48 hours.
 * The above is just to fine tune, because again, it’s an excellent plug-in!
 *  Plugin Author [Uwe Jacobs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uwejacobs/)
 * (@uwejacobs)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-56/#post-14879819)
 * Thanks for your kind words. Please update to version **5.0.3**:
    - The weather page setup lost some settings when editing the options. This has
      been fixed.
    - The WeatherIcons iconpack is working again.
    - The animated main icon will be replaced with the one from the selected iconpack
      when you check the layout option “Disable animations for main icon? “. Animations
      default to Climacons SVGs.
    - The table and chart templates will now honor the selected number of hours 
      and days to forecast.
 *  Thread Starter [cambofrizz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cambofrizz/)
 * (@cambofrizz)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-56/#post-14881005)
 * Thanks very much for your fast reply and fixes. Working fine now.
 * There’s just one little glitch: while sunrise and sunset in the ‘Today’ panel
   are in local time, moonrise and moonset are not: the time zone is added twice
   to the UTC time.
    It’s because in owmweather.php on lines 2049 and 2050 the time
   zone is added. However, it takes the time from the daily moonrise and moonset
   data where that already has happened.
 *  Thread Starter [cambofrizz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cambofrizz/)
 * (@cambofrizz)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-56/#post-14881921)
 * Oh, one more thing: the input for latitude (owmweather.php line 502) is forcing
   a value of 90, should be min=”-90″.
    -  This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by [cambofrizz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cambofrizz/).
 *  Plugin Author [Uwe Jacobs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uwejacobs/)
 * (@uwejacobs)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-56/#post-14882826)
 * Thanks for your detailed bug reports! The fixes will be in the next patch.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-56/#post-14882826)
 * Status: resolved