[wp-edu] Jetpack error

[Ken Newquist]

Related to my previous post, I'm wondering if any colleges that used (or rather, tried to us) JetPack encountered errors connecting to the service. 

I've experimented with it on a personal site, and it worked just fine, but when I tried it on my dev site at the college, it failed with this error:

"Jetpack could not contact WordPress.com: register_http_request_failed. This usually means something is incorrectly configured on your web host".

After finding this thread: 

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/jetpack-register_http_request_failed-how-do-i-fix-this

we tried curling maneuver it suggested, and got back an error message of "HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request"  along with an error of 

{"error":"home_missing","error_description":"The required \"home\" parameter is missing."}

I realize that this mailing lists for more general discussion topics, and not support requests, but a lot of the research we've done turns up problems with hosted sites on third party providers, not folks who do their hosting in house like many colleges do.


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