Title: Upgrading problems… Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Upgrading problems… * [vbpartners](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vbpartners/) * (@vbpartners) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-problems-4/) * Tried a few times to automatically upgrade the WP on a site from within the dashboard but it just got stuck. * I can do it manually, i guess, but was wondering, why would that happen? Is there a problem there that i should be aware of? * thanks Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-problems-4/#post-1407533) * > it just got stuck * What **exactly** happened? * Thread Starter [vbpartners](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vbpartners/) * (@vbpartners) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-problems-4/#post-1407570) * After I clicked on the automatic upgrade, i got the Upgrade WordPress screen and “Downloading update from [http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9.2.zip.”](http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9.2.zip.”); came up…. and it just got stuck there. It didn’t progress, didn’t change screens nothing. about 40 minutes later, it was still there… stuck. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-problems-4/#post-1407631) * Try adding: `AddType x-mapp-php5 .php` to the top of your WordPress .htaccess file. * [jforinfo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jforinfo/) * (@jforinfo) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-problems-4/#post-1407633) * doesn’t work Esmi I try to upgrade my wp spamfree plugin and it’s stuck “Downloading update from [http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-spamfree.zip.”](http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-spamfree.zip.”); * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-problems-4/#post-1407640) * Darn! It’s definitely a server configuration issue. You might want to have a word with your hosting provider. * [jforinfo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jforinfo/) * (@jforinfo) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-problems-4/#post-1407699) * I’m downgrading my wp to 2.8 and everything works perfectly now * [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/) * (@mrmist) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-problems-4/#post-1407700) * You should manually upgrade to 2.9.2 using the [source zip file download](http://wordpress.org/download/). Version 2.8 has several known exploits that leave your site vunerable to attack. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Upgrading problems…’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 7 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/) * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-problems-4/#post-1407700) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics