Comments on: Fix/Tricks for plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.5

By: Randy’s Blog » WordPress hell again

Randy’s Blog » WordPress hell again — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:28:36 +0000

[...] Fix was here. [...]

By: Kemple.us » Post Topic » Getting Wordpress Autoupgrade to Work

Kemple.us » Post Topic » Getting Wordpress Autoupgrade to Work — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:40:41 +0000

[...] been doing it the old fashioned way of either sftp or through terminal. The closest I got was this fix that I found which at least made it so I could upgrade/install plugins with one [...]

By: jez

jez — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:54:33 +0000

works like a charm, many thanks.

I had to leave out the temp dir, but it works now

By: Jordan McClements

Jordan McClements — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:22:15 +0000

“Without WP_TEMP_DIR specified in your config, the upgrade will use wp-content as a temp directory.”…

Thanks – that was the info I was looking for – changing folder permissions to “777″ temporarily did the trick…

By: Michael post

Michael post — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:14:47 +0000

I had the same problem and the following seemed to fix it. “Note that your files all need to be owned by the user under which your Apache server executes, or you will receive a dialog box asking for “connection information,” and you will find that no matter what you enter, it won’t work. ”

from http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress

By: Marty Thornley

Marty Thornley — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:19:55 +0000

Thanks for the help. Just ran into this for the first time and your fix worked… with one extra step.

It got me past the connection information but was having trouble creating folders, so I needed to create the folder ‘wp-content/upgrade’ as well.

The part that bothers me is that none of it would work without all three folders ‘plugins’, ‘tmp’, and ‘upgrade’ all being 777. Is that a problem?

By: Ivan | SEO Consultant

Ivan | SEO Consultant — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:34:30 +0000

The change to getmyuid() to posix_getuid() does the trick for me on 2.7.1.

But when the plugin is downloaded, I click Activate – and get a blank page. – Going Back to the list of plugins, the new plugin IS actaully activated…

The page just does not display automatically like it did – with teh confirmation of the plugin activation.

Anyone else seeing this?

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:09:20 +0000

Thank you!

I changed getmyuid() to posix_getuid()

on line 628

of /wp-admin/includes/file.php

Seems to done the trick.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:32:42 +0000

I got impatient… so I just edited wp-admin/includes/file.php and took $method=’direct’ outside the loop… everything works fine now! (tried the posix_getuid stuff first to no avail)

By: Rob Scott

Rob Scott — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:25:03 +0000

OK – final step IS NOT required in 2.7.1.

By: Rob Scott

Rob Scott — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:11:36 +0000

Yes – this looks like what I need too! Should save me a whole lot of time as the plugins I use seem to be updated every other day we’re running about 40 WordPress installs now too – so thanks – I’d pretty much got to the final step, but there’s no way I’d have figured that out, so thanks for posting this.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:34:37 +0000

Thanks, this was the trick I needed!

By: wal-d

wal-d — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:16:46 +0000

Thanks a lot. For all Wordpress 2.7 users: Obviously there are changes on line number 628 in the file “wp-admin/includes/file.php”

The temp file is now called “$temp_file” and not “$tempFile” anymore as described here. So please make sure not to copy & past but only to replace the function “getmyuid” with “posix_getuid”

Cheers, David

By: Mathew

Mathew — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:37:34 +0000

Thanks for this — simply fixing the code in file.php to use posix_getuid() did the trick for me. No need to chmod etc.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:25:01 +0000

It appears 2.7 hasn’t taken care of this. I’m still having the problem. I follow the steps outlined and before I get to the step to change the file.php file, I no longer get the FTP request box, but then I get the following:
“Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.zip
Download failed.: Could not create Temporary file
Plugin upgrade Failed”

If I make the change to file.php, then I go back to it asking me for the FTP information

I’m frustrated with this! Two of the WP blogs on my VPS update just fine, the rest of them do not. I’m still trying to figure out what the difference is.

By: Mighty Seb

Mighty Seb — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:12:25 +0000

Thanks a lot for this trick !

I’m actually using wordpress 2.6.3, and there’ still the same “bug” by using getmyuid() instead of posix_getuid() …

( In the /wp-admin/includes/file.php, it’s around line 451 )

Hopefull 2.7 will take care of this

By: prash

prash — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:24:21 +0000

“posix_getuid()” instead of “getmyuid()” did the trick (my wp-content folder was already apache-owned)

thanks!
-prash

By: Michael Janssen

Michael Janssen — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:21:48 +0000

I came across this fix independently after searching the path that the check took. I submitted a ticket on the wordpress trac, maybe we can get this fixed once and for all.

By: Keith Garner

Keith Garner — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:17:37 +0000

LastOne,

This sounds like a question for your ISP. Unless you’re admin enough to do the ownership changes yourself, it probably won’t go. (And I doubt any ISP will do it for you.) One workaround I am loath to mention is to make the directories world writable, which would work, but open you up to anyone else on the box monkeying with your stuff.

By: LastOne

LastOne — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:06:40 +0000

Hi, I hope you can help me with a little problem. I used your solution on my page. The only thing is, i could not execute the shell comments.

The Files wich are uploaded by the plugin-update-function set the user nobody as owner of the upgraded files. Is there a chance that it is set to the ftp user i use by login?

By: LastManStanding.de - Wordpress - Worpress 2.5.1 - Automatisches Plugin-Update funktioniert nicht

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:28:33 +0000

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By: Marios Alexandrou

Marios Alexandrou — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:54:31 +0000

Thanks for this post! It helped me solve the same problem I was having on a Windows box. The WP_TEMP_DIR option works. Just make sure that it is defined after ABSPATH in the WP-CONFIG file. And then create the temp folder of choice and give it write/delete permissions. In addition the WP-CONTENT folder needs to be given write/delete permission too.

Unfortunately, I believe following these steps via a typical web host’s control panel pretty much makes important sections of WordPress open to the world. Not a good thing. But knowing what’s going on now might lead me to a better solution. Or I could just switch to Linux