Title: Cannot automatically upgrade theme – permissions?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Cannot automatically upgrade theme – permissions?

 *  [pgarth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pgarth/)
 * (@pgarth)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-automatically-upgrade-theme-permissions/)
 * **Overview:**
    -Attempting to automatically upgrade the Techozoic fluid theme
   from version 1.8.3 to 1.9.1 -Site is hosted by 1and1.com -Logged in as admin -
   Appearance, Themes, Manage Themes, click on “Upgrade Automatically”
 * **Issue:**
    -First line containing “Downloading update from [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/techozoic-fluid.1.9.1.zip&#8221](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/techozoic-fluid.1.9.1.zip&#8221);
   comes back -Then, nothing…
 * **Observation:**
    -When I click on “Upgrade Automatically” I x-ref using FileZilla
   and see this file within wp-content — techozoic-fluid.tmp of file-size zero.
 * Can someone point me in the correct direction? I’ve done various searches and
   it appears it’s a file permission issue, but unsure on how to fix.
 * Note: I just upgraded to WP 3.01, but did this manually by copying up the files,
   vs auto upgrade.

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-automatically-upgrade-theme-permissions/#post-1768735)
 * Try increasing the memory for PHP and WordPress by putting this line near the
   top of your wp-config.php file right, after the opening `<?php`
 * `define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');`
 * and see [Changing File Permissions « WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions)
 *  Thread Starter [pgarth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pgarth/)
 * (@pgarth)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-automatically-upgrade-theme-permissions/#post-1768746)
 * Thanks for the reply. Before updating memory, I’d like to focus a bit more on
   File Permissions. Of course, I’m new to this.
 * Within the wp-content folder all files and directories are of numeric value 755.
 * Within wp-content, after clicking on “Upgrade Automatically” within Dashboard
   I see a new file being created called techozoic-fluid1.tmp. This file has permissions
   of 644.
 * What’s throwing me off is that the documentation is alluding to the user re: 
   The permission mode is computed by adding up the following values for the user,
   the file group, and for everyone else.
 * I have an FTP username and I’m logged in as Admin.
 * Can you tell me what I’m missing in terms of applying permissions? Also, do I
   have to log-in via FileZilla in a particular way – for example: LogonType=Account,
   User=FTP username, Account=Admin. I’m unclear about how I’m specifically assigning
   rights to a user.
 * Thanks for your patience as I work through this.
 * Paul
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-automatically-upgrade-theme-permissions/#post-1768754)
 * It’s probably just 1and1.com. They’re a problematic host when it comes to WordPress.
   Increasing memory is the better thing to try than fight with permissions you 
   can’t change or fully see due to 1and1’s restrictions.
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-automatically-upgrade-theme-permissions/#post-1768759)
 * Try adding these lines to .htaccess to enable php5 with a plain text editor via
   FTP. If you get a server error, you’re not using a plain text editor.
 *     ```
       AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
       AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [pgarth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pgarth/)
 * (@pgarth)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-automatically-upgrade-theme-permissions/#post-1768775)
 * Thanks for the info.
 * I tried add the memory line with no difference found.
 * I tried the AddType and now get: “Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error
   was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.”,
   so I’m going to comment out that line.
 * Any other ideas? I’m also thinking of just manually uploading the files to a 
   new theme subdirectory, but would be nice to see if I could resolve this issue—
   intellectually curious.
 * I’m also learning quite a bit by digging around this stuff.
 * Thanks.
 * Paul
 *  Thread Starter [pgarth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pgarth/)
 * (@pgarth)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-automatically-upgrade-theme-permissions/#post-1768779)
 * I just noticed that you had given me two lines starting with Add… so I’m going
   to try that. Using FileZilla to edit the file, which ends up opening NotePad 
   on a Windows machine.
 * I also noticed something interesting — I had originally found those lines, but
   the first said: AddType x-mapp-php5.php Maybe I had removed the space to bring
   the .php in to the filename. Anyway, when I used your format, I didn’t get an
   error when refreshing the web-site.
 * But… let me check…
 * **TaDa!!!**
 * Downloading update from [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/techozoic-fluid.1.9.1.zip…](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/techozoic-fluid.1.9.1.zip…)
 * Unpacking the update…
 * Installing the latest version…
 * Enabling Maintenance mode…
 * Removing the old version of the theme…
 * Disabling Maintenance mode…
 * Theme upgraded successfully.
 * ========
 * I really appreciate your help — got me up and running and love this new version
   of Techozoic.
 * Thanks.
 * Paul

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 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
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 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-automatically-upgrade-theme-permissions/#post-1768779)
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