Plugins won't update

  • lawtonlodge183

    (@lawtonlodge183)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    I’ll preface my questions with the fact that I tried disabling all the plugins, using a default theme, etc. and still no joy updating plugins. WordPress Update Checker gives the warning that the checksum is unavailable.

    Since the site runs on a VPS, I even tried disabling the firewall briefly to see if it was blocking communications with WordPress.org. No change.

    I turned on WP_DEBUG and get the following error:

    Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with WordPress.org or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums. (WordPress could not establish a secure connection to WordPress.org. Please contact your server administrator.) in /home/XXX/public_html/wp-includes/update.php on line 306

    I get two identical messages for lines 479 and 123.

    Based on http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress.org_API, I also tried manually contacting the plugin check API with:
    curl [-1] https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/update-check/1.1/wp-optimize

    It produces the following response:

    <html>
<head><title>404 Not Found</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>404 Not Found</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>

    I know that I can manually update the plugins but automated updates would certainly make life easier.

    Thanks.

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  • kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Try renaming wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar to wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar-old

    That plugin is throwing a javascript error.

    Thread Starter lawtonlodge183

    (@lawtonlodge183)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Done. No change to the situation. Since I’ve disabled the plugin I’ll take the opportunity to manually upgrade it.

    kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Well, the javascript error is gone so that’s good.

    Most of the time this error is caused on the server end so please check with your host.

    Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with WordPress.org or this server’s configuration.

    No problems posting? Can you upload a new theme from WordPress?

    Thread Starter lawtonlodge183

    (@lawtonlodge183)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    No, I cannot access themes from W.org through the Dashboard. I have to download and upload. I can manually install plugins through the Dashboard. It’s just updates of plugins that don’t work. I even tried a clean install of WP 4.0.1 under another user and with zero plugins active I got the notification to upgrade WP and the themes. It just did not do anything with Askimet or one old plugin (WP-Optimize) that was installed but not active. Even after upgrading to 4.5.3 there were no alerts to upgrade the plugins.

    I have been working with the host to troubleshoot this as well. I have root access on my VPS which is why I was able to turn off the firewall. I also upgraded to php7 and Apache 2.4.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Are all your openSSL libraries up to date?

    Thread Starter lawtonlodge183

    (@lawtonlodge183)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    I upgraded openssl and recompiled Apache and PHP to ensure that they are using the new version of openssl. Still no joy.

    Thread Starter lawtonlodge183

    (@lawtonlodge183)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Oddly, I am now receiving intermittent notifications that there are plugins that need updating but when I click to the Update page, the update page says that everything is up to date. The host provider is actively involved in helping and there isn’t anything that they are blocking.

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