Comments on: Direct plugin auto-update on WordPress 2.8

By: zorbas

zorbas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:14:17 +0000

Thank you very much, kind dude!

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How to fix Wordpress Updates (FTP Connection Information) | How To Hacks — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:48:13 +0000

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By: Nikhil

Nikhil — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:40:48 +0000

I love you Keith…you solved the worst problem ever I faced…I fate it when it was asking for the three fields…but you solved my problem…
Very nice post!!!

By: Pablo

Pablo — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:59:59 +0000

Thanks for the post, it still works on WP 3.2.1, 2 years after the original post…

By: Hybrid

Hybrid — Mon, 16 May 2011 13:09:08 +0000

Now i have another problem after doing this.
Could not create Temporary file.

By: Keith Garner

Keith Garner — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:18:36 +0000

Damien, it sounds like you’ve exceeded the quota at your ISP. No permission is gonna fix that. You need to delete something or beg your ISP for more.

By: Damien Benoit

Damien Benoit — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:10:19 +0000

Just manually added the directory and now this is the error I get when trying to update:

Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.1.2.zip…
Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Unable to create file /homepages/18/d109531826/htdocs/blog/wp-content/wordpress-3.tmp because Disk quota exceeded in /homepages/18/d109531826/htdocs/blog/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 213
Download failed.: Could not create Temporary file.
Installation Failed

By: Damien Benoit

Damien Benoit — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:09:15 +0000

I tried this option trying to upgrade to version 3.1.2 and it removed the need for FTP information, it just changed the error to being this now:

Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.1.2.zip…
Unpacking the update…
Could not create directory.: /homepages/18/d109531826/htdocs/blog/wp-content/upgrade/wordpress-3.tmp
Installation Failed

And looking at it, im confused cause i was sure in the past my htdocs folder was called httpdocs but not sure and through FTP I cant go that far up in the directory structure to test and see. Im using 1And1.com Hosting.

Any help with figuring out why? I set the upgrade directory to 777 abut still nothing.

By: cjackson23

cjackson23 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:16:51 +0000

Works wp 3.0. Thanks.

By: opeter

opeter — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:25:09 +0000

Hello Keith, thank you so much, it still works in WordPress 3.1!

Kind regards,
Peter

By: rlohrman

rlohrman — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:43:33 +0000

Worked! Thanks!

By: Keith Garner

Keith Garner — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:36:37 +0000

That’s one reason I haven’t done a newer post, Chuck. Thanks for confirming it for anyone else who lands here.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:38:44 +0000

Hey,

Thanks, that was amazing – still works on version 3.0.4!

Greatly appreciated!!!

Chuck

By: truefinger

truefinger — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:19:00 +0000

yeah tanks! it works

By: iambryan

iambryan — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 07:35:26 +0000

Thanks for this little piece of code, it saved me a few more white hairs while trying to untangle this non-ftp installation.
Bryan
+1

By: Keith Garner

Keith Garner — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:10:17 +0000

Malee,

I’m not really much of a windows guy, but that looks clearly like a permissions problem. Looks like you’re web server doesn’t have permission to write into those directories. Fix that and you’ll be golden. (Of course, if you’re using a hosting provider, you might not be able to do fix it.)

By: Malee

Malee — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:39:55 +0000

Hey there, tried the fix and this is the error that comes up when trying to use it:

‘Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Unable to create file D:\Hosting\6474687\html/wp-content/constructor.tmp because Permission denied in D:\Hosting\6474687\html\wp-admin\includes\file.php on line 199
Download failed. Could not create Temporary file.’

Any ideas as to why??

By: Marsha

Marsha — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:09:00 +0000

This worked like a charm. Thanks so much!

By: JB

JB — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:53:09 +0000

It worked for me. Thanks very much. I beat my head on the wall for a couple of weeks. Tried everything to no avail. Copied your code and pasted at the bottom of wp-config.

I O U
Thanks JB

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:29:58 +0000

Couldn’t change anything on my site, only by ftp, but with this little modification and a few permission changes, wordpress is perfect! thanks a lot Keith!!

By: Anson

Anson — Sun, 30 May 2010 08:33:53 +0000

Thanks alot, This works 100%!

By: APerson

APerson — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:57:19 +0000

Just had the same problem and this solution worked – which WP made this solution a lot easier to find. Thanks for the help!

By: Reco

Reco — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:21:39 +0000

I don’t know why but it doesn’t work for me
when I gave this command at the end of wp-config.php file, I still get the connection information page and I get to see this command in header above the wp template.

By: Billy Mac.

Billy Mac. — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:54:12 +0000

Thanks!
I too had been pulling my hair out over this. Works perfectly now and just as it always used to (& like it should out of the box), and finally I too was able to update several plugins begging to be updated for quite awhile now.

(Lol…The hours of head-aches…and then a 15 second fix)

I had been doing it manually initially but it quickly grew old as you can imagine.
Again thank-you very much…You’ve saved myself and many people it looks like from further head-aches and almost certain termination of WordPress 2.9.2
Lol…just can’t believe how simple that was

By: asantha

asantha — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:09:54 +0000

i add it end of the wpconfig.php .. but still the same problem

By: mike

mike — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:05:27 +0000

I’ve just installed WordPress (2.9.2) on my localhost and couldn’t install any new themes. Added this to my config and now it works fine. Thanks!

By: jack

jack — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:04:54 +0000

awesome. adding define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’); fixed my upgrade problem. thanks!

By: rene

rene — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:50:36 +0000

Worked for me as well! Needed to change the access right on the includes directory but after that it worked like a charme. Thx

By: Ldigital

Ldigital — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:04:42 +0000

Thank you so much!
I’ve had many problems with WordPress FTP Access on Xtreemhost, but this tweak fixes it!
Thanks! =)

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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:55:41 +0000

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By: Jonathon Hill » What to do when WordPress 2.8+ asks for connection info to upgrade a plugin

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:33:01 +0000

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By: Laran Evans

Laran Evans — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:41:25 +0000

Neat trick. I won’t leave this change in place because it’s not durable through upgrades. But it did help me to diagnose and resolve the underlying problem. Thanks.

By: Mandeep Singh

Mandeep Singh — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:15:47 +0000

Thanks Man i problem is gone after 6 hours of headache

By: Boris

Boris — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:12:53 +0000

Many many many thanks for this, I’v been searching for like 2 hours

By: vince jelenic

vince jelenic — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:16:28 +0000

hi, thanks a million.
head aching from using ftp past two weeks, today decided either I get auto upgrades working, or chuck WP. given new 2.9 in stream, and over 9 plugins begging for upgrade — was about to give up till I came across this.
Did the change, immediately “deleted” a plugin without resorting to ftp — I’ll cross fingers for it working across the board, but THAT is one huge step from before.
Who’da thunk, one liner. And I’ve been tackling file permissions, and considering workarounds for a bit now.
Gee, thanks, really muchly.
thanks.

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By: Rob Scott

Rob Scott — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:43:02 +0000

Me again! Just moved one of our bigger blogs to a new bigger dedicated server, encountering a new OS, and a new control panel (Plesk 9.2.2) – I love these learning curves. Got everything set up, then auto updates didn’t work. Came back to this bookmark, still nothing. Turned out to be the following:

Turn PHP Safe Mode Off

Simple as that. Hope this helps someone having the major fit I narrowly avoided this morning!

Once again thanks for your simple guide – really helps to have a step-by-step to go back to when your brain is fried after a day of tinkering

By: jules

jules — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:06:11 +0000

Just adding the above code to my wp-config.php worked for me (without wp_temp_dir settings). Before, I had been prompted by an ftp error message (re. connection information) when installing new themes in WP 2.8.4. No matter what I tried, it just didn’t work. I tried downloading plugins too and everything seems to run smoothly now. Thanks a lot!

By: donnacha | WordSkill

donnacha | WordSkill — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:32:22 +0000

Sorry, I should have mentioned, I was attempting to upgrade from 2.7.1 to 2.8.4.

By: donnacha | WordSkill

donnacha | WordSkill — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:30:25 +0000

I had the opportunity to try a core upgrade too but got this error:

Warning: copy(/home/lonesc/public_html/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/lonesc/public_html/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php on line 122

… so, I guessing that there is some other folder that I need to 777 in order to get core upgrades working.

Is anyone familiar with what folders WP copies from and writes to during a core upgrade?