Title: Timeout while trying to update WP
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Timeout while trying to update WP

 *  [Robert Heller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertpheller/)
 * (@robertpheller)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-while-trying-to-update-wp/)
 * 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…](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertpheller/)
 * (@robertpheller)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-while-trying-to-update-wp/#post-2180097)
 * 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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 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-while-trying-to-update-wp/#post-2180097)
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