Can't install .zip plugins

When I try to install a plugin from a .zip file in the MainWP dashboard, I get this error:

Installation failed(PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature)

I can install the same plugin directly on the child site through the site admin dashboard, but the same plugin will not install to any child site via the MainWP dashboard.

Any ideas what might be causing this error? The sites are in multiple hosting environments with different providers.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Can you please post the community system report from your MainWP Dashboard for review? The report is located in your Dashboard under Status → Server, on the top right of the page.

Be sure to use the button like the one below; this button hides all your private information:

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Pressing the button auto-copies the report to your clipboard then just paste it in a reply here.

Hi Bogdan, below is the report after attempting to install iThemes Security Pro from .zip.


### Server Info                    Required                                               Detected                                     Status   ###

MainWP Dashboard                   
MainWP Dashboard Version           4.0.7.2                                                4.0.7.2                                      Pass        
MainWP Upload Directory            Writable                                               Writable                                     Pass        
MainWP Extensions                  
Advanced Uptime Monitor Extension  5.0.2                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Branding Extension          4.0                                                    Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Bulk Settings Manager Extension4.0.2                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Clean and Lock Extension    4.0.1                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Client Reports Extension    4.0.3                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Clone Extension             4.0                                                    Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Comments Extension          4.0.2                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Custom Dashboard Extension  4.0                                                    Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Custom Post Type            4.0.1                                                  Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP Favorites Extension         4.0.2                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP File Uploader Extension     4.0                                                    Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP Google Analytics Extension  4.0.3                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP iThemes Security Extension  4.0.2                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Maintenance Extension       4.0.1                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Page Speed Extension        4.0.1                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Post Plus Extension         4.0.2                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Pro Reports Extension       4.0                                                    Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Rocket Extension            4.0.1                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Staging Extension           4.0                                                    Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Sucuri Extension            4.0.5                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Team Control                4.0.1                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP UpdraftPlus Extension       4.0.2                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP URL Extractor Extension     4.0.1                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP Vulnerability Checker Extension4.0.3                                                  Active                                       Pass        
MainWP WooCommerce Shortcuts Extension4.0                                                    Active                                       Pass        
MainWP WooCommerce Status Extension4.0.1                                                  Active                                       Pass        
WordPress                          
WordPress Version                  >=3.6                                                  5.4.2                                        Pass        
WordPress Memory Limit             >=64M                                                  40M                                          Warning     
MultiSite Disabled                 =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
FileSystem Method                  = direct                                               direct                                       Pass        
PHP                                
PHP Version                        >=5.6                                                  7.3.11                                       Pass        
PHP Safe Mode Disabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
PHP Max Execution Time             >=30 seconds                                           30                                           Pass        
PHP Max Input Time                 >=30 seconds                                           60                                           Pass        
PHP Memory Limit                   >=128M                                                 512M                                         Pass        
PCRE Backtracking Limit            >=10000                                                1000000                                      Pass        
PHP Upload Max Filesize            >=2M                                                   128M                                         Pass        
PHP Post Max Size                  >=2M                                                   128M                                         Pass        
SSL Extension Enabled              =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
SSL Warnings                       = empty                                                                                             Pass        
cURL Extension Enabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
cURL Timeout                       >=300 seconds                                          60                                           Warning     
cURL Version                       >=7.18.1                                               7.45.0                                       Pass        
cURL SSL Version                   >=OpenSSL/0.9.8l                                       OpenSSL/1.0.1e                               Pass        
PHP Allow URL fopen                YES                                                    
PHP Exif Support                   YES ( V7.3.)                                           
PHP IPTC Support                   YES                                                    
PHP XML Support                    YES                                                    
PHP Disabled Functions             No functions disabled.                                 
PHP Loaded Extensions              Core, PDO, Phar, Reflection, SPL, SimpleXML, bcmath, bz2, calendar, cgi-fcgi, ctype, curl, date, dom, exif, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, hash, iconv, imap, intl, ionCube Loader, json, libxml, mbstring, mysqli, mysqlnd, openssl, pcre, pdo_mysql, pdo_pgsql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, posix, pspell, session, soap, sockets, sqlite3, standard, tidy, tokenizer, xml, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, zlib
MySQL                              
MySQL Version                      >=5.0                                                  10.2.32-MariaDB-log                          Pass        
MySQL Mode                         NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION                                 
MySQL Client Encoding              utf8mb4                                                
Server Info                        
Server Software                    Apache                                                 
Operating System                   Linux                                                  
Architecture                       64 bit                                                 
Server Protocol                    HTTP/2.0                                               
HTTPS                              ON - on                                                
Server self connect                Response Test O.K.                                     
User Agent                         Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.61 Safari/537.36
Gateway Interface                  CGI/1.1                                                
Memory Usage                       53 MB                                                  
Request Time                       1591905537                                             
Accept Content                     text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Accept-Charset Content             N/A                                                    
MainWP Settings                    
Number Of Child Sites              21                                                     
Use WP-Cron                        Yes                                                    
Optimize for Shared Hosting or Big NetworksYes                                                    
Automatic Daily Update             Install trusted updates                                
Abandoned Plugins/Themes Tolerance 365                                                    
Maximum number of posts to return                                                         
Maximum number of pages to return                                                         
Maximum Number of Comments         50                                                     
Primary Backup System              Default MainWP Backups                                 
Maximum simultaneous requests      4                                                      
Minimum delay between requests     200                                                    
Maximum simultaneous requests per ip1                                                      
Minimum delay between requests to the same ip1000                                                   
Maximum simultaneous sync requests                                                        
Minimum simultaneous install/update requests                                                       
Active Plugins                     
iThemes Security                   7.7.1                                                  Active                                       
MainWP Dashboard                   4.0.7.2                                                Active                                       
Ultimate Dashboard                 2.8.1                                                  Active                                       
UpdraftPlus - Backup/Restore       2.16.26.24                                             Active                                       
White Label                        2.0.8                                                  Active                                       

Thanks!

Do you get the same error if you deactivate the iThemes Security plugin on the site?

Yes, same error: Installation failed(PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature)

Strange. Can you try one more test and try to upload&install some other plugin, for example, download Akismet from WP.org and see how it goes?

Same error: Installation failed(PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature)

Thanks for checking that.

Can you send me temporary access to your MainWP Dashboard (via Private message) so I can check this further?

I just tried to duplicate the issue, and I could but as soon as I deactivate the iThemes Security plugin on your dashboard site, it works normally.

Can you retest that?

Aha! Thank you, Bogdan!

When you originally suggested deactivating iThemes Sec I thought you meant on the site I was trying to install it on, not my MainWP dashboard. After deactivating on the MWP dash and trying to upload and install iThemes Sec Pro, it worked as it should.

Mystery solved, thanks once again!

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