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Why does automatic upgrade NEVER work for me? (3 posts)

  1. thehealthyskeptic
    Member
    Posted 1 month ago #

    I've been using WordPress for a long time now, and I've never once gotten Automatic Upgrade to work.

    Each time I try, I deactivate all plugins and choose the default theme. But it always stops right after "downloading update". In fact, when I look in the Content folder I see that the update hasn't actually been downloaded, because it is a 0kb file.

    What could be going wrong here?

  2. MichaelH
    moderator
    Posted 1 month ago #

    Might try increase PHP memory...methods for increasing the amount of memory a PHP script may consume

    1. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
    If your line shows 32M try 64M:
    memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)

    2. If you don't have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
    php_value memory_limit 64M

    3. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:
    define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

    4. Talk to your host.

    If that doesn't work, might try installing the http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/core-control/ and see if the "External Http Access" or "HTTP Access Logger Module" tells you anything.

  3. thehealthyskeptic
    Member
    Posted 3 weeks ago #

    Hi Michael,

    Thanks for your reply. Where would I find the PHP.ini file? I can't see it in the folder with the rest of my WP files using my FTP program, so I'm assuming I don't have access.

    I tried your suggestion in #2, but that caused an "internal server error" when I attempted to load my blog afterwards.

    I was able to add the command in WP-config.php without a problem, but I won't be able to tell if it works until the next upgrade.

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