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</head><BODY ><div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">true. but wordpress lets you enter the ftp user and uses that account to modify things, so, the permissions should be ok, or not matter as its the ftp user. </SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> Tony C. Loosle wrote:</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> I am working on some wordpress site upgrades.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> With the user and pass for ftp I can update plugins with no</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> problem but get an error with the auto upgrade on wordpress</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> itself. I get this:</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> Unpacking the update.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> Could not copy files.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> Installation Failed</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> Anyone with an idea?</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> Most likely you are running into an ownership / permission issue.</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> If the files to be written/overwritten are owned by the FTP user,</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> then Apache isn't going to be able to modify them.</SPAN></div>
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