Title: Plugin activation causing weird errors 2.2.2
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Plugin activation causing weird errors 2.2.2

 *  [lostgorilla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lostgorilla/)
 * (@lostgorilla)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-activation-causing-weird-errors-222/)
 * I’m attempting to roll out a new site today and am having fits with plugins activating.
   I have the entire site working on MAMP on my mac all plugins activated and everything
   working. When i try to roll out onto a live server things go nutty. I’ll do my
   best to explain.
 * here are the plugins I am using:
    1. UTW or Simple Tagging (take your pick)
    2. WP-Postratings
    3. WP-Postviews
    4. Post-Thumb Revisited
 * I can activate Postratings, Postviews and Post-Thumb without a problem. When 
   I attempt to activate a tagging plugin, wordpress admin does the following:
    1. the plugin doesnt activate. Instead, the link to activate downloads plugins.
       php to my desktop
    2. Refreshing downloads it again
    3. Clicking on the menu item Plugins downloads it also
 * I can remove the tagging plugin and things work fine. I’ve tested this by adding
   a plugin like hello dolly and all other plugins including the new one (hello 
   dolly) work fine. Add the tagging plugin back in a bam… same problem. it doesnt
   seem to matter which of the two plugins i use UTW or simple tagging.
 * I’m on a UNIX server, plenty of resources (the whole box is ours), its hosted
   on Rackspace and has several other WP installs running with no problem. (various
   versions, various plugins).
 * I’ve stripped everything off the server and have rolled back to 2.2.1. Simple
   Tagging triggers a fatal error on activation as does UTW. I didnt see that error
   in 2.2.2.
 * I stuck hello dolly back on and it activates with no problem. It could be a conflict
   between the tagging plugins and one of my others.
 * If anyone can help or needs more info to help, please let me know. I’ll provide
   everything I can.
 * Thanks!

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