Download failed.: Could not create Temporary file

Quick ammendment to the post for users on Media Temple’s DV servers. There is a risk to this technique as this kills safe_mode for the site..

WP-CONFIG should contain the following:

define('FS_CHMOD_FILE', 0755);
define('FS_CHMOD_DIR', 0755);
define('FS_METHOD', 'ftpext');
define('FTP_BASE', '/httpdocs/');
define('FTP_CONTENT_DIR', '/httpdocs/wp-content/');
define('FTP_PLUGIN_DIR ', '/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/');
define('FTP_USER', 'USERNAME');
define('FTP_PASS', 'PASSWORD');
define('FTP_HOST', 'SERVER:PORT');

HTACCESS should contain the following:
php_value safe_mode "1"

I have a similar problem. Plugin install or update tries to write the temporary file it downloads to the root directory. I have no way of changing permissions in the root, ISP won’t allow it. I have about a dozon other WordPress installations none has this problem. Is there a way to designate a temporary directory and force everything to go there? I can assign, and have assigned, RWX permissions in wp-content.

Thanks.

@jallits

In the code snippet you provide for servers running Apache or will it work for IIS? On IIS I don’t believe there is .htaccess file, is that required? Is there a down side to using this snippet in the wp-config file?

I am still searching for a solution that works universally on different IIS servers and for WP and plugin updates.

Karl 19, Thanks. Kept looking for network file but it was the wp-content file that needed permissions changed.

On Linux/Unix installation suPHP is enabled by default.. The root cause of this and many other upgrade / permission issues is in running php mode as Apache .. try running PHP as another user and surely this saga will end.

G.

I’m a novice in this, and I want to turn of php safe mode, but where do i do that?