Automatic plugin/theme install not working – tried everything!

  • topher1078

    (@topher1078)


    13 years, 7 months ago

    Howdy. Been trying like the dickens to get automatic plugin/theme upgrades and installs to work on my WordPress 3.0.1 setup. Each time I initiate the FTP upgrade through wp-admin, I get the following…

    Downloading install package from http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/the-erudite.2.7.2.zip…

    Unpacking the package…

    Installing the theme…

    Could not create directory. /www/mysite/wp-content/themes/the-erudite/

    Theme install failed.

    For testing, I’ve set everything to 777 permissions. I can create and delete directories all I want through my FTP client. I also tried setting up a brand new WP install on the same server, and got the same error message. I’ve tried deleted and re-adding the plugins folder and deleting and re-adding the upgrades folder. I even tested php’s mkdir() with a dummy page and it created a directory just fine.

    The only thing I can think of is that there’s something weird in that I’m running on a Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard server, but WordPress runs great other than this. It’s not a major problem but it is incredibly annoying and I’d be quite grateful for any and all assistance.

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  • compares4u

    (@compares4u)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    I have the same problem, and found that the best way round it (and also seems faster) is to upload the zip file to your plugin directory and then using your ftp client or web based file manager just extract the contents. Then its just of case of going to the plugin folder and activating it.

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter topher1078

    (@topher1078)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    I know I could do it manually, just find it odd that I can’t through FTP, when my FTP server connects, has permission, but just can’t finish the job. Quite weird.

    mtorluemke

    (@mtorluemke)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    I had the same problem. Tried 777’ing all the dirs, and everything else everyone mentioned on all the forums for non-Snow Leopard users. Anyway, nothing helped, until I changed the user that owned all the dirs to _www. I had the dirs 777’d and had the group owner as _www, neither helped — it was the user. Go figure.

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