Title: Fatal error: uncaught exception 'Exception'
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Fatal error: uncaught exception 'Exception'

 *  [simone.f](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonef/)
 * (@simonef)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-uncaught-exception-exception/)
 * Dear developers,
 * when trying to activate the plugin on one blog, this is the error message that
   I receive:
 * Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘Facebook needs the 
   CURL PHP extension.’ in /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/facebook-events-
   widget/fb-sdk/src/facebook.php:4 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/
   plugins/facebook-events-widget/facebook-events-widget.php(42): require_once()#
   1 /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/plugins.php(146): include(‘/var/www/wordpr…’) #
   2 /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/plugins.php(148): plugin_sandbox_scrape(‘facebook-
   events…’) #3 {main} thrown in /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/facebook-
   events-widget/fb-sdk/src/facebook.php on line 4
 * What does this mean? I tried to replace the plugin folder content with files 
   from another blog using the same plugin, but the result is the same.
 * best regards,
    Simone
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-events-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-events-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Roi Dayan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roidayan/)
 * (@roidayan)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-uncaught-exception-exception/#post-4740600)
 * you will need to check with your hosting for curl support.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-uncaught-exception-exception/#post-4740600)
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