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"An unexpected error occurred."

WordPress Warning

If you saw the error like this:

An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with WordPress.org or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums.

It might appear in "Add Themes" and "Add Plugins" pages.

WordPress - Add Themes - An unexpected error occurred.
WordPress - Add Themes - An unexpected error occurred.

Clicking "Try Again" may help nothing, you should solve this error before going further.

WordPress - Add Plugins - An unexpected error occurred.
WordPress - Add Plugins - An unexpected error occurred.

Solutions

You have to do both of the following actions in order to solve the problem.

1. Disable SELinux

You may need to know how to disable SELinux temporarily or permanently.

2. Install BIND-UTILS

Since the program may need the capability of network resolution internally, so we install bind-utils to get essential network tools ready for it.

[root@web ~]# yum info bind-utils

In this case, we use yum to install the package.

[root@web ~]# yum -y install bind-utils

For Debian distros, you can use apt-get to install bind-utils. After that, please log out your session, reopen your browser and get into the page, then you can see the correct result.

If the above method failed, you may add an explicit entry to /etc/hosts as the last resort.

[root@web ~]# vi /etc/hosts
...
198.143.164.251 api.wordpress.org

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