Title: Plugin Installation Failed
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin Installation Failed

 *  [leachsquad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leachsquad/)
 * (@leachsquad)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-failed/)
 * Hello,
 * Whenever I try to add a plugin I get the following error message. Any idea what
   I need to do to fix it?
 * Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Unable to create file D:\Hosting\3980435\html/
   wp-content/1235844316 because Permission denied in D:\Hosting\3980435\html\wp-
   admin\includes\file.php on line 174
 * Warning: fileowner() [function.fileowner]: stat failed for D:\Hosting\3980435\
   html/wp-content/1235844316 in D:\Hosting\3980435\html\wp-admin\includes\file.
   php on line 628
 * Warning: unlink(D:\Hosting\3980435\html/wp-content/1235844316) [function.unlink]:
   No such file or directory in D:\Hosting\3980435\html\wp-admin\includes\file.php
   on line 630
 * Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Unable to create file D:\Hosting\3980435\html/
   wp-content/1235844316 because Permission denied in D:\Hosting\3980435\html\wp-
   admin\includes\file.php on line 174
 * Warning: fileowner() [function.fileowner]: stat failed for D:\Hosting\3980435\
   html/wp-content/1235844316 in D:\Hosting\3980435\html\wp-admin\includes\file.
   php on line 628
 * Warning: unlink(D:\Hosting\3980435\html/wp-content/1235844316) [function.unlink]:
   No such file or directory in D:\Hosting\3980435\html\wp-admin\includes\file.php
   on line 630
 * Downloading plugin package from [http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/amazon-showcase-wordpress-widget.1.3.zip](http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/amazon-showcase-wordpress-widget.1.3.zip)
 * Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Unable to create file D:\Hosting\3980435\html/
   wp-content/amazon-showcase-wordpress-widget13.zip because Permission denied in
   D:\Hosting\3980435\html\wp-admin\includes\file.php on line 174
 * Download failed.: Could not create Temporary file
 * Installation Failed

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-failed/#post-1003267)
 * Might be a windows server problem so look here:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/243300?replies=7#post-985795](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/243300?replies=7#post-985795)
 *  [Casemon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/casemon/)
 * (@casemon)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-failed/#post-1003761)
 * Try adding this to your wp-config.php file:
 * `define('WP_TEMP_DIR', ABSPATH .'wp-content/uploads/');`

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 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Casemon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/casemon/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-failed/#post-1003761)
 * Status: not resolved

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