Why does my API Key not work?

digitaldefcon · Member · Jun 23, 2007 at 5:33 pm
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Hello,
i am running a wordpress blog (current stable version) on phpnet.us (free hosting). To use akismet, i just registered here. I now tried to use the “API-Key” i got in the welcome Email to make Akismet working. Akismet got me the error that my api-key seems to be wrong. I exactly copy&paste’ed this Key from my welcome Email like also from my wordpress.com profile. What am i doing wrong?
drmike · Member · Jun 23, 2007 at 5:45 pm
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Depends. What’s the specific error?

You may also want to search the forums for that error as it’s probably been covered before.
digitaldefcon · Member · Jun 23, 2007 at 5:55 pm
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The error is just that akismet tells me that my api-key seems to be wrong. No sql-error or something.
Also, i dindt found anything alike using the search
drmike · Member · Jun 23, 2007 at 6:00 pm
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Need the specific error please, not in your own words.
digitaldefcon · Member · Jun 23, 2007 at 6:11 pm
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Ok, take a look buddie:
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9671/19330874qr1.png
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/1447/28859592bg4.png

Thx in advance :)
thistimethisspace · Member · Jun 23, 2007 at 6:28 pm
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Excuse me but sometimes simple things work. Have you tried typing in the key instead of copying and pasting? This is what the Akismet FAQs says to do.
mark · Member · Jun 23, 2007 at 6:46 pm
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Copied from elsewhere in the forum – and also mainly in the Akismet faq:

Your key will be correct.

The error message is because Akismet cannot access the Akismet server. The problem is one of three things:

– either Akismet is being denied access to the internet if you are hosted locally behind a firewall, or

– the server you are on lacks the ‘fopen’ function which Akismet needs or

– your host might need to know that the default-installed SELinux security precautions (on Fedora4) causes this problem. With SELinux disabled, it works.

Talk to your host.
drmike · Member · Jun 23, 2007 at 6:49 pm
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Didn’t need a picture. Just needed the specific error.
polyomino · Member · Jul 26, 2007 at 6:27 pm
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I recently had trouble with my akismet API Key on http://www.omino.com/blog. I debugged it by adding a display line during the verification request:
```
//!!! dvb
    print "<h1> dvb akismet_http_post( key=$key&blog=$blog ,  rest.akismet.com ,  /1.1/verify-key , $akismet_api_port) </h1>";
    //!!! dvb
    $response = akismet_http_post("key=$key&blog=$blog", 'rest.akismet.com', '/1.1/verify-key', $akismet_api_port);
```
And I saw — in great big h1 text during “save options” — that my $blog variable was a broken URL. I’d manually changed the database to be just /blog instead of the full URL at some point, in wp_options table, and forgotten about it.

Anyway, perhaps the debug-by-displaying tactic will prove helpful for someone else, someday, so it is here posted for posterity.

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