Problems Updating

Does your website hosting technical support have any ideas, it could be another aspect of their security settings that also block the auto updates.

Suggest that you turn on debugging in your wp-config.php file prior to doing a manual plugin update, you will hopefully get more informative error messages.
In wp-config.php find the line:
define('WP_DEBUG', false);
comment it out and add:
define('WP_DEBUG', true);
Be sure to reverse this after you have finished.

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by RossMitchell.

As I said, I don’t use auto update, I only update manually. This problem only recently started, maybe a version or two ago, hence it’s got to be WordPress itself that’s the problem, not my host, not the server, not anything else. I don’t add new plugins, in fact I’ve been using the same plugins for literally years.

And if you tell me WordPress doesn’t have these kinds of problems, I’ll scream!

But I will turn on the debug

PS: My version of wp-config.php doesn’t contain the string: ‘define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);’

If you cannot update your plugins/themes or you receive FAILED update, the first thing you should try is to update them from your WordPress interface, to validate that it is an issue with ManageWP specifically, and not the site itself.

The most common cause of this problem is that your website requires FTP information.

You can correct upgrade issues by adding FTP information in your site’s wp-config.php file.

Note: Do not add this to the end of the file, but just below the database information on the top of the file.

define(‘FTP_USER’, ‘username’);

define(‘FTP_PASS’, ‘password’);

define(‘FTP_HOST’, ‘ftp.example.org’);

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by Sharvin Shah.

Hi Sharvin,
I access the back end using Cyberduck (or Filezilla). I always update from the WP update page. On looking through the site, I don’t see any ref to automated updating, like turning it on or off. I always assumed you had to actually turn it on for it to work. In any case, I’m not happy with automated updating, it’s just another potential security breach, which is why my hosting co, don’t let me use it.

Yes, Maintenance Mode turns itself off after a few minutes unless the Update fails. This has happened a couple of times a long time ago and I deleted the temp file.

No debug false line, curious.
Then just add the line turning on debugging below the database settings.

Okay After deleting the temp Did it work??