Title: WordPress will not update plugins or core.
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# WordPress will not update plugins or core.

 *  Resolved [madrid1979](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madrid1979/)
 * (@madrid1979)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-will-not-update-plugins-or-core/)
 * While attempting to update both plugins and wordpress core separately, I receive
   the error that the download fails: “An error occurred while updating [plugin]:
   Download failed.”, with a similar error for WP Core, however, in either case,
   no other details are provided. From all indications, everything else seems to
   work fine, and only recently has this stopped working for ALL the WP sites that
   reside on this server (3 sites).
 * I’ve checked permissions, logs, host files, etc. I can’t find any indication 
   as to why this is happening. Has anyone ever encountered such a thing?
 * My site: [http://www.rrpartnersblog.com](http://www.rrpartnersblog.com)

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 *  [abletec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abletec/)
 * (@abletec)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-will-not-update-plugins-or-core/#post-5374643)
 * Hi, madrid1979, and welcome.
 * Perchance is this a multisite install?
 *  Thread Starter [madrid1979](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madrid1979/)
 * (@madrid1979)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-will-not-update-plugins-or-core/#post-5374645)
 * It’s not but I’ve fixed my issue. I’m still not sure of the nature of the problem,
   but I restarted Apache and everything went back to normal. I’ve never seen an
   issue like it before. No error reporting to be found. Nothing in the logs, nothing
   returned by php.

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 * Last reply from: [madrid1979](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madrid1979/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-will-not-update-plugins-or-core/#post-5374645)
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