Ftp not working from within WordPress dashboard after upgrade to WP 4.0

  • Hammer02

    (@hammer02)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    FTP download error:

    Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-sitemap-generator.4.0.7.1.zip…

    Download failed. Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable.

    I recently completed a manual upgrade to WordPress 4.0. I am hosting wordpress on my own server and have complete admin access to all services and directories. I am running windows server 2003 with IIS 6.0. I have been hosting wordpress blogs on this server since 2011.

    1) I have never been able to use automatic wordpress version upgrade and have always had to perform manual upgrades. But this has never been a problem before.

    2) However, prior to upgrading to 4.0 I could manage all plug ins, including downloads, activate, deactivate and delete.

    3) Prior to the 4.0 upgrade, I deactivated all plug in. After the upgrade, I activated all plugins. All but one or two activated without problem.

    4) But now I can not update any plugin. From the wordpress ftp console I keep getting an error message stating:

    Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-sitemap-generator.4.0.7.1.zip…

    Download failed. Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable.

    I have changed permissions at the directory level and from within IIS. The ftp still fails. I have been working on trying to find a fix for two days. The ftp credentials are correct as I can access the directories from any other ftp client.

    Are there any other wordpress test tools or anything else I can use to solve this problem. Just to reiterate, I was able to manage plugins prior to the upgrade and now I can’t. I am at a loss as to next steps.

    Any help would be appreciated.

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  • Thread Starter Hammer02

    (@hammer02)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Just an update on the problem. After a few more hours and manually changing permissions in IIS 6, I am now receiving a different error message. My interpretation is that the ftp connection is now established, but the plugin upgrade still can not create a directory of write.

    Update Plugin
    Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-sitemap-generator.4.0.7.1.zip…

    Unpacking the update…

    Could not create directory.

    I see threads on this issue throughout the forum, but they are older and offer no fixes for WP 4.0. The important thing here is that prior to upgrading to 4.0 I was able to install and upgrade plugin from the WP dashboard. Now I can not.

    Hopefully someone involved in the release of 4.0 can offer some advice.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter Hammer02

    (@hammer02)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Still can’t get Ftp to work within WordPress on a windows server. I was hoping that someone in the word press world could offer some direction on why I am having this problem? Surely other users must have had this problem before?

    Thread Starter Hammer02

    (@hammer02)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Spent another four hours today searching for a solution to the problem caused when I upgrade to WP 4.0 when I lost auto upgrade ability. Still getting the followin error:

    Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/broken-link-checker.1.9.5.zip…

    Download failed. Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable.

    Nothing I try seems to be working.

    One note I did not mention before is I have three other WP blogs on the same server that I have not upgraded to 4.0, and they are working fine. I can use all the auto upgrade functions in the older versions of WordPress so this problem is isolated to my install of WordPress 4.0.

    So the question remains. What happened to automatic upgrades when I updated to WP 4.0.

    Nothing I change in file permissions seems to have any effect at all on the problem.

    Any suggestions for next steps would be appreciated.

    Thread Starter Hammer02

    (@hammer02)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    It took a long time, but I finally have my automatic upgrades working again running WP 4.0 on a Windows Server with IIS6.

    The WP 4.0 wp-config.php file contained a line that read:

    define( ‘WP_TEMP_DIR’, ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/’ );

    I changed it to the following to actually tell wp the temp file name:

    define( ‘WP_TEMP_DIR’, ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/tmp’ );

    This then gave me a new error further along in the plugin automatic update process. The error said WP could not delete old files. So I changed the permissions of the IIS Windows iusr_computername by adding special permission of delete files.

    That did it. Automatic updates for plugin are working again for WordPress 4.0 on a Windows Server 2003 running IIS6.

    Hope this helps the next person.

    dshayne

    (@dshayne)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you, this got me much further along, but now I am getting error message “Destination folder already exists. Installation failed.” Any ideas?

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