meldesigner

Hi everyone,

First of all, thank you so much for your availability and your patience.

I wanted to share the solution I found to a problem that gave me quite a headache with the community. I hope it can be helpful to other users who might encounter the same situation.

PROBLEM SUMMARY:

I was developing a WordPress page for a non-profit event locally using XAMPP (PHP Version 8.4.5; MySQL Version 8.0.41; phpMyAdmin Version 5.2.2), which included a registration form and seat selection. After installing the Divi theme and the Fluent Forms plugin (Version 6.0.2 free), everything worked correctly. However, once I installed and activated the SeatReg plugin (Version 1.56.7), the system returned an “Internal Server Error”. Despite several days of attempts and frustration, I couldn’t find a solution.

I had read online that activating custom Permalinks could solve the issue, but this suggestion also proved ineffective. At that point, I tried a drastic solution by installing a completely clean, new instance of WordPress. I immediately activated permalinks, only to encounter the “Internal Server Error” again.

SOLUTION FOUND:

At this point, I realized that the problem wasn’t with the elements I was uploading (since there was nothing in the new installation; I had even deleted the default plugins). So, I searched further online and found a solution that worked perfectly in my case:

In the httpd-xampp.conf file, it’s necessary to add the directive AllowOverride All within the “Directory C:/xampp/htdocs/xampp” block.

After making this change, I was able to install everything I needed, and the system started running smoothly and quickly. The only drawback was that SeatReg wasn’t generating QR codes due to the lack of the gd extension. I resolved this issue as follows:

In the C:\xampp\php\ext\php.ini file, I “uncommented” (removed the semicolon) the line extension=gd and immediately below it, I added the line: extension=C:\xampp\php\ext\php_gd.dll.

Now everything is OK!

Thank you very much for your valuable work. As far as I’m concerned, you can safely mark this issue as resolved.

I hope my experience can be helpful to others!

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