Title: Update failed, warning
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Update failed, warning

 *  [laptopleon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laptopleon/)
 * (@laptopleon)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-failed-warning/)
 * Hi,
 * When I try to update WordPress to 3.7.1 (3.7.1-nl_NL from 3.6.1-..) first it 
   said:
 * Warning: copy(/home/hetanker/domains/[domainname]/public_html/wp-admin/includes/
   update-core.php) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in/
   home/hetanker/domains/[domainname]/public_html/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-
   direct.php on line 200
 * I tried to find a solution on wordpress.org/support and found [a thread that I thought sounded similar](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/unable-to-update-wordpress-371?replies=10)
   but I couldn’t edit the rights of the directory ./wp-admin/wp-content/upgrade,
   like was suggested there, so I deleted it and and created a new one (with the
   same name). Then tried again.
 * Now it says (in Dutch so I’m not 100% sure that this is literarily what it would
   be in English):
 * _Directory can’t be created.: /home/hetanker/domains/[domainname]/public\_html/
   wp-content/upgrade/wordpress-3.tmp_
 * Installation failed
 * Any idea’s?

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-failed-warning/#post-4347125)
 * Check on the file permissions – if they are okay, try a manual update – [http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update](http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update)

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