Daniel Hepper » wordpress http://daniel.hepper.net/blog Random geeky stuff Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:57:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Automatic plugin update problem in Wordpress 2.8.x http://daniel.hepper.net/blog/2009/09/automatic-plugin-update-problem-in-wordpress-2-8-x/ http://daniel.hepper.net/blog/2009/09/automatic-plugin-update-problem-in-wordpress-2-8-x/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:15:13 +0000 Daniel Hepper http://daniel.hepper.net/blog/?p=115 After upgrading Wordpress to the current version, I could no longer automatically update plugins. This is the error message I got:

Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/xxx.zip.

Unpacking the update.
Warning: unlink(/…/wp-content/upgrade/xxx.zip) [function.unlink]: No such file or directory in /…/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader.php on line 146

Incompatible archive PCLZIP_ERR_MISSING_FILE (-4) : Missing archive file ‘/…/wp-content/upgrade/wp-syntax.0.9.8.zip’

After digging through the forums I found a solution to the plugin autoupdate problem in the Wordpress Support forum.

Open the file wp-config.php in the root directory of your Wordpress installation and remove the definition of the WP_TEMP_DIR variable, i.e. a line that looks like this

define('WP_TEMP_DIR', ABSPATH . "wp-content/upgrade");
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