Waterflood1 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 Sorry if I bother with this, but I can not find a solution if someone can help me, I am not that experienced Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cheshire Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 That sounds like your file isn't reachable. Can you try to open the file you configured to update from in a browser and see if you get what you expect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Scaly Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 I think you can also check the logs on the server you’re hosting the files on and it may give an indicator of what the unreachable path is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 panda Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 20 hours ago, Cheshire said: That sounds like your file isn't reachable. Can you try to open the file you configured to update from in a browser and see if you get what you expect? Looks like HTML is being returned instead of JSON. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cheshire Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 51 minutes ago, panda said: Looks like HTML is being returned instead of JSON. I was thinking that as well, might be a 404/403 page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 TheKezStrel Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 I have had this error myself. Some providers don't allow direct file linking and it's this "protection" feature of your server hoster that is interfering with the file transfer between your provider and clients. The text files will still be "served", but with added html tags that the updater does not recognise, so it spits out that error. Use Google compute, Oracle compute or Amazon AWS and install a httpd server so you have full control over what is served. I'm running several servers in Oracle and Google on their free tiers. TheKezStrel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Andical Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 11 hours ago, TheKezStrel said: I have had this error myself. Some providers don't allow direct file linking and it's this "protection" feature of your server hoster that is interfering with the file transfer between your provider and clients. The text files will still be "served", but with added html tags that the updater does not recognise, so it spits out that error. Use Google compute, Oracle compute or Amazon AWS and install a httpd server so you have full control over what is served. I'm running several servers in Oracle and Google on their free tiers. TheKezStrel I tried 000webhost and awardspace and both have this protection you menction and the .json cant be checked. Still looking for a free solution for testing or I will end up with a hostkoala service (some people say it works) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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