Title: Upgrading Via SSH2 – Installation Failed Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Upgrading Via SSH2 – Installation Failed * [war59312](https://wordpress.org/support/users/war59312/) * (@war59312) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-via-ssh2-installation-failed/) * Hi, * I am trying to get upgrading wordpress via SSH2 working correctly. * Updating plugins is working perfectly. * But when it comes to updating wordpress itself fails with: * > Downloading update from [http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.1.3.zip…](http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.1.3.zip…) > Unpacking the update… > Verifying the unpacked files… > Installing the latest version… > Could not copy file.: /usr/local/nginx/html/wp-content/themes/index.php > Installation Failed * Notice I am using the nginx web server which is running on Ubuntu Server 10.10. * These errors are logged in localhost.error.log: * > 2011/06/03 19:36:54 [error] 18269#0: *18 FastCGI sent in stderr: “PHP Warning: > file_put_contents(): Unable to open ssh2.sftp://Resource id #146/usr/local/ > nginx/html/.maintenance on remote host in /usr/local/nginx/html/wp-admin/includes/ > class-wp-filesystem-ssh2.php on line 165 > PHP Warning: file_put_contents(ssh2.sftp://Resource id #146/usr/local/nginx/ > html/.maintenance): failed to open stream: operation failed in /usr/local/nginx/ > html/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ssh2.php on line 165 > PHP Warning: file_put_contents(): Unable to open ssh2.sftp://Resource id #146/ > usr/local/nginx/html/wp-content/themes/index.php on remote host in /usr/local/ > nginx/html/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ssh2.php on line 165 > PHP Warning: file_put_contents(ssh2.sftp://Resource id #146/usr/local/nginx/ > html/wp-content/themes/index.php): failed to open stream: operation failed > in /usr/local/nginx/html/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ssh2.php on > line 165 > PHP Warning: file_put_contents(): Unable to open ssh2.sftp://Resource id #146/ > usr/local/nginx/html/wp-content/themes/index.php on remote host in /usr/local/ > nginx/html/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ssh2.php on line 165 > PHP Warning: file_put_contents(ssh2.sftp://Resource id #146/usr/local/nginx/ > html/wp-content/themes/index.php): failed to open stream: operation failed > in /usr/local/nginx/html/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ssh2.php on > line 165″ while reading upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request:“ > POST /wp-admin/update-core.php?action=do-core-upgrade HTTP/1.0”, upstream: “ > fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000”, host: “127.0.0.1”, referrer: “[http://127.0.0.1/wp-admin/update-core.php”](http://127.0.0.1/wp-admin/update-core.php”); * Again updating plugins via SSH2 is working. So SSH2 itself is working correctly it seems. * The version of wordpress I am trying to upgrade from is wordpress 3.1 * So ideas on how to fix this issue? * Thanks for the help, * Will * Update: And of course after trying to figure this out for an hour. And a few minutes after posting I fix it.. Figures! 😉 * Anyways, I had to run these two commands to fix it: * > sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/nginx/html/wp-content > sudo chown -R www-data /usr/local/nginx/html * At first, I had only run the first one then, but then upgrading failed once again saying it could not access the upgrade folder. * After running the second command everything worked as expected and it successfully upgraded. 🙂 The topic ‘Upgrading Via SSH2 – Installation Failed’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Failed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/failed/) * [upgrading](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrading/) * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 0 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [war59312](https://wordpress.org/support/users/war59312/) * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-via-ssh2-installation-failed/) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics