Errors installing Online Price Retrieval

[John Ralls]

> On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:56 PM, Michael Seifert <mseifert9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I ran Install Online Price Retrieval from Windows 7 menu with 1) the
> firewall disabled, 2) antivirus disabled, 3) ports 50000 - 63000 forwarded
> in router, 4) install-fq-mods.cmd  on command line with admin privileges. 
> 
> The first group of errors which seem important are: 
> 
> robot/ua-get.t ........ 2/8 HTTP Server terminated
> robot/ua-get.t ........ Failed 5/8 subtests
> robot/ua.t ............ 2/7 HTTP Server terminated
> robot/ua.t ............ Failed 5/7 subtests
> local/autoload-get.t .. ok
> local/autoload.t ...... ok
> local/get.t ........... ok
> local/http.t .......... 1/63
> #   Failed test 'response code 404'
> #   at local/http.t line 81.
> #          got: '500'
> #     expected: '404'
> 
> 
> The full screen output is here: http://pastebin.com/GQXUM5VU
> 
> I uninstalled perl and tried it from scratch. Same result
> My-pc is the computer name. 
> I have xampp installed with apache as my server
> Is this a localhost HTTP request? Is this something I may have configured in
> my apache installation?
> 
> I found this conversation here:
> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Getting-prices-and-quotes-td4672791.htm
> l  with very similar issues and no resolution.
> 
> Anything else I can try? 

Can you shut down xampp and apache while you do the install? It looks from the tests that they’re trying to talk to a daemon that they set up and your http server may be intercepting the requests.

Regards,
John Ralls