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</head><BODY ><div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">The even stranger thing is sites on one server work and sites on another do not. As far as I can tell the php settings, etc. are the same.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> Sorry for the previously incomplete message:</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> This is a known issue with the WordPress auto update.</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> Ocasionally it is a chown / chmod fix but often it cannot be</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> addressed that way. Try deleting the ./wp_content/update folder and</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> running the auto update again. If that fails, you will most likely</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> have to download, unpack and install the update manually. Do not</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> forget to backup your WordPress folder and your databases. I began</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> encountering this problem with WordPress 2.6.0 update and it now</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> occurs on all three WordPress sites that I have as of 2.8.3.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> There are multiple pages in the support section at</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> <a href="http://wordpress.org/">http://wordpress.org/</a> that might help you further, but I did not</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> have much success getting the auto update to work past 2.6.0.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> -Dax A. Morgan</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> dax.morgan@charter.net</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> From: blueonyx-bounces@blueonyx.it</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> [<a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@blueonyx.it]">mailto:blueonyx-bounces@blueonyx.it]</a> On Behalf Of Tony C. Loosle</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:47 PM To:</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> cobaltfacts@virtbiz.com; BlueOnyx General Mailing List Subject:</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> [BlueOnyx:02102] Re: wordpress question??</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> true.</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> but wordpress lets you enter the ftp user and uses that account to</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> modify things, so, the permissions should be ok, or not matter as</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> its the ftp user. </SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> t</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> Tony C. Loosle wrote:</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">>>> I am working on some wordpress site upgrades.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">>>> With the user and pass for ftp I can update plugins with</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">>>></SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> no</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">>>> problem but get an error with the auto upgrade on</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> wordpress</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">>>> itself. I get this:</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">>>> Unpacking the update.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">>>> Could not copy files.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">>>> Installation Failed</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:purple;">>>> Anyone with an idea?</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> Most likely you are running into an ownership / permission</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> issue.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> If the files to be written/overwritten are owned by the FTP</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> user,</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:maroon;">>> then Apache isn't going to be able to modify them.</SPAN></div>
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