Timeout while trying to update WP

  • Robert Heller

    (@robertpheller)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    I want to do an automatic upgrade of a testsite I am using for some development work (working on a special WP plugin), but I am getting this error:

    Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.2.zip…

    Download failed.: Operation timed out after 300 seconds with 1405748 bytes received

    Installation Failed

    This is on a system with only a dial-up internet connection. What I want to know: is the timeout something local (eg somewhere in /etc/php.ini or someplace in the WP code) or a setting at wordpress.org? Is my only option to do a *manual* download of wordpress-3.2.zip and then doing a manual update (which is a real pain in the butt)?

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  • Thread Starter Robert Heller

    (@robertpheller)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    OK, I edited wp-admin/includes/file.php and increased the timeout there from 300 to 1000 and got this error:

    Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.2.zip…

Unpacking the update…

Incompatible Archive.: PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature

Installation Failed

    And when I went to manually download wordpress-3.2.zip on the machine with dial-up access I got this:

    sauron.deepsoft.com% wget -c -P /extra/ http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.2.zip
--2011-07-11 13:35:56--  http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.2.zip
Resolving wordpress.org... 72.233.56.138, 72.233.56.139
Connecting to wordpress.org|72.233.56.138|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to:

    /extra/wordpress-3.2.zip’

    [ <=> ] 2,067,484 4.58K/s in 7m 14s

    2011-07-11 13:43:11 (4.66 KB/s) – `/extra/wordpress-3.2.zip’ saved [2067484]

    sauron.deepsoft.com% unzip -t /extra/wordpress-3.2.zip
    Archive: /extra/wordpress-3.2.zip
    End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
    a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
    latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
    the last disk(s) of this archive.
    unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /extra/wordpress-3.2.zip or
    /extra/wordpress-3.2.zip.zip, and cannot find /extra/wordpress-3.2.zip.ZIP, period.
    `

    It looks there are *two* things wrong with wordpress.org:

    1) It has a download timeout
    2) It does not send a ‘content-length:’ header!

    I can actually live with the download timeout, so long as there is a content-length header — wget can deal with this.

    I had to download wordpress-3.2.zip on a different machine (with a faster internet connection) and then transfer the file from there to the machine with the slow internet connection…

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