Title: Updates and plugins “hang”
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Updates and plugins “hang”

 *  [josephpolk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josephpolk/)
 * (@josephpolk)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-and-plugins-hang/)
 * I’m having an interesting problem and not sure how to resolve it. Every time 
   that I try and add a plugin or try to upgrade “automatically” to the latest version,
   WP asks me for my FTP information. I give it and then the screen just hangs and
   doesn’t update or install anything — forcing me to manually update the site via
   an FTP client.
 * Any ideas on why it would just hang? I installed WP on my server by myself instead
   of through Fantastico or similar program that most companies have.
 * Thanks in advance for any and all replies.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-and-plugins-hang/#post-1426697)
 * Try adding:
 * `AddType x-mapp-php5 .php`
 * to the top of your WP root .htaccess file.
 *  Thread Starter [josephpolk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josephpolk/)
 * (@josephpolk)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-and-plugins-hang/#post-1426713)
 * esmi — I tried that, and when I went to my login screen, it outputted a TON of
   code and did not display my normal WP login screen.
 * Any other ideas? 🙂
 * (thanks for trying to help me so far)
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-and-plugins-hang/#post-1426715)
 * Are you sure you add that line to the right file?
 *  Thread Starter [josephpolk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josephpolk/)
 * (@josephpolk)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-and-plugins-hang/#post-1426822)
 * Yes…this is what comes up when I go to my wp-login.php page for my site after
   adding the above code:
 * _[Code moderated as per the [Forum Rules](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/68664).
   Please use the [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/)]_
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-and-plugins-hang/#post-1426897)
 * Try re-uploading all files and folders – with the exception of the wp-content
   folder – from a fresh download of your version of WordPress.

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 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-and-plugins-hang/#post-1426897)
 * Status: not resolved

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