Title: Plugin Not Activating
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Plugin Not Activating

 *  Resolved [bigredclifford](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigredclifford/)
 * (@bigredclifford)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-activating-12/)
 * Hi Guys,
 * I installed the plugin and activated it, however, I was no longer able to access
   my admin page. It told me that DBUpdated was missing. I downloaded the plugin
   files from your site and uploaded it however it kept disappearing…
 * I removed the plugin manually and then reinstalled it via the plugin-installer
   on the admin panel. Instead of pressing ‘Activate’ straight after installing 
   I clicked ‘back to Plugin-Installer’ and tried activating from there instead.
   Now it is not activating. It gives the following error:
 * “Warning: require_once(/home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/photography-management/
   includes/activator.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /
   home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/photography-management/photography_management.
   php on line 45
 * Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘/home/xxx/public_html/wp-
   content/plugins/photography-management/includes/activator.php’ (include_path=’.:/
   usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/
   photography-management/photography_management.php on line 45″
 * I’ve replaced my site name with ‘xxx’.
 * Any ideas?
 * Regards,
    Joe
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/photography-management/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/photography-management/)

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 *  Thread Starter [bigredclifford](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigredclifford/)
 * (@bigredclifford)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-activating-12/#post-6889471)
 * **UPDATE:** I have tried manually uploading ‘Activator.php’, however, when I 
   press ‘Activate’ it deletes the file and throws the same error…
 *  Plugin Author [Denis Golovin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/denis_golovin/)
 * (@denis_golovin)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-activating-12/#post-6889545)
 * Hi,
 * this sounds strange. Have you installed other plugins? Can you try to temporary
   disable all other plugins and test PHMM again?
 * Regards,
 * Denis
 *  Plugin Author [Denis Golovin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/denis_golovin/)
 * (@denis_golovin)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-activating-12/#post-6889802)
 * Hi all,
 * we solved the problem. Joe’s server does not support symlinks and (surprisingly)
   just deletes all PHP-files which contain the symlink function. Since we assume
   that this might be an issue for other people too (at least on this host), we 
   will get rid of the symlinks and instead use another technology in the next release(
   2.7.0).
 * Regards,
 * Denis

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 * Last reply from: [Denis Golovin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/denis_golovin/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-activating-12/#post-6889802)
 * Status: resolved