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Error code: 500

Can you get the error out of your apache error logs please ... this doesn't happen for me either on my "production" forums or the one I use for testing.

Edit 2: Fundamentally though the problem is because you are not getting back XML from the API servers. Trouble is the TEA code isn't handling that very well.

This is not a fix ... the code will stop rather than give the error 500 but it will print some info that I need to see in order to tell what you are getting instead of expected XML

bool(false) object(Exception)#6 (7) { ["message":protected]=> string(33) "String could not be parsed as XML" ["string":"Exception":private]=> string(0) "" ["code":protected]=> int(0) ["file":protected]=> string(31) "/home/www/forum/Sources/TEA.php" ["line":protected]=> int(1982) ["trace":"Exception":private]=> array(6) { [0]=> array(6) { ["file"]=> string(31) "/home/www/forum/Sources/TEA.php" ["line"]=> int(1982) ["function"]=> string(11) "__construct" ["class"]=> string(16) "SimpleXMLElement" ["type"]=> string(2) "->" ["args"]=> array(1) { [0]=> string(0) "" } } [1]=> array(6) { ["file"]=> string(31) "/home/www/forum/Sources/TEA.php" ["line"]=> int(1630) ["function"]=> string(14) "settings_rules" ["class"]=> string(3) "TEA" ["type"]=> string(2) "->" ["args"]=> array(1) { [0]=> &string(46) "http://blackwatchsyndicate.com/forum/index.php" } } [2]=> array(6) { ["file"]=> string(31) "/home/www/forum/Sources/TEA.php" ["line"]=> int(3425) ["function"]=> string(8) "Settings" ["class"]=> string(3) "TEA" ["type"]=> string(2) "->" ["args"]=> array(1) { [0]=> &string(46) "http://blackwatchsyndicate.com/forum/index.php" } } [3]=> array(4) { ["file"]=> string(33) "/home/www/forum/Sources/Admin.php" ["line"]=> int(519) ["function"]=> string(17) "ModifyTEASettings" ["args"]=> array(0) { } } [4]=> array(2) { ["function"]=> string(9) "AdminMain" ["args"]=> array(0) { } } [5]=> array(4) { ["file"]=> string(25) "/home/www/forum/index.php" ["line"]=> int(151) ["function"]=> string(14) "call_user_func" ["args"]=> array(1) { [0]=> &string(9) "AdminMain" } } } ["previous":"Exception":private]=> NULL }

Again this is just more debug. Tell me what the result is. Depending on your browser and what is returned you may well need to view the page source to get the full content of what is returned.

bool(false)

You are missing php5-curl ... BUT the code "should" warn you of this. If it isn't then we have another bug :)

Telnet to port 443?

So you can connect to the api servers manually, you have php-curl installed but when it tries to make an API call you get nothing not even an error.

Silly clutch at straw here ... you do have https://api.eveonline.com set in the server field at the bottom of the Tea setting page ?

Sweet ... Glad that fixed it coz I was out of ideas :)

I've just removed r2 from my server and I'm trying to install r5. Everything is okay until it gets to the actual install page and most of the files have an error next to them in big bold red letters that says "Modification parse error". I've tried proceeding anyways and it fails to install, but there are no other errors on the board.

I've downloaded the most recent package available from the first post in this thread.

SMF Version 2.0.6

I've not seen that one before but a quick Google turned up this :

Solved it. For some reason, SMF couldn't parse the .tgz file that I downloaded from you link, so, I extracted it, re-compressed into a .zip and it went through without a problem.