{"id":2918,"date":"2024-11-29T12:39:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T11:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartsearchwp.com\/docs\/chatbot-not-displayed-on-frontend\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T11:43:07","password":"","slug":"chatbot-not-displayed-on-frontend","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.smartsearchwp.com\/en\/docs\/chatbot-not-displayed-on-frontend\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatBot not displayed on frontend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If the SmartSearchWP chatbot is not displayed on the public part of your site, this may be due to the deactivation of the <strong>allow_url_fopen<\/strong> option in your server&#8217;s PHP configuration. This directive allows PHP to access remote files via URLs. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Solution: Enable allow_url_fopen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>To solve this problem, you need to enable the <strong>allow_url_fopen<\/strong> option in your PHP configuration. 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