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WordPress FTP update trouble

29 December 2009, 05:12:17
Слушаю: Кирилл Комаров - Деньги на ветер

Sometimes when you update wordpress or plugins, especially if you use safe mode, you can get errors like this:

Enabling Maintenance mode.

Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/all-in-one-seo-pack.zip.
wp-content/uploads/all-in-one-seo-pack.tmp
Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Unable to create file wp-content/uploads/all-in-one-seo-pack.tmp because No such file or directory in ***/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 185

Download failed. Could not create Temporary file

That’s because wordpress uses strange things for temporary directory.
To cure it with non intrusive methods, just add

define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’,ABSPATH.’wp-content/uploads/’);

to the bottom of your wp-config-file.
That’s it.
Took me about two hours to figure out -_-

UPD. If you have an error “Division by Zero” – then try using the following modification:

$path = $ABSPATH .’wp-content/uploads/’;
define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’,$path’);

Thank for this goes to Rookian (Rookian.com).

Tags: wordpress

Comments [ 23 ]

Nathália
2 June at 4:06 am

Thanks!! :D

Johan
16 June at 5:15 pm

Thanks,

I’m using wp3 in multisite mode
I created a temp dir with 777 permissions
define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’,ABSPATH.’wp-content/temp/’);

and it solved the problem.

Andrea
17 August at 5:49 pm

Thank you very much!!!!

Neil Matthews
20 August at 1:09 pm

Thanks a million, this solved a plugin update issue for me, I spent hours messing around with permissions before I found your fix.

So if anyone gets a “cannot find wp-content” error when trying to auto-update plugins use this fix

Ryan
25 August at 7:59 pm

AAH THANKS!! seriously, that it awesome

Ryan
25 August at 8:01 pm

Warning: Division by zero in D:\inetpub\mysite\blog\wp-config.php on line 92

not working

Jehy
26 August at 10:05 am

That’s some kind of another trouble…
Please put here your 92 line, I’ll look through this.

Ramzi
31 August at 3:33 am

I am having the same error as Ryan’s , and the line is actually the code itself !!

Jehy
31 August at 1:42 pm

Mmmm. Did you really properly copy-paste the code?

Ramzi
1 September at 7:53 pm

yes..

Ramzi
1 September at 8:02 pm

Well i’ve modified the path where the temp file should be..

Rookian
21 September at 1:22 am

I had the same problem (Division by Zero)

Use the following snippet :)

Jehy
21 September at 4:09 am

Thanks!

frand
24 September at 2:02 am

Brilliant! Now update works!

solve my update problem.

Frank Rawson
8 January at 2:28 pm

I still get this error
Warning: Division by zero in C:\inetpub\vhosts\frawson.co.za\httpdocs\wp-config.php on line 91

kemg
12 January at 8:38 pm

Go to your file manager and changed the permissions on the wp-content folder to read and write!

Jason
12 February at 2:57 am

I’ve copied and pasted the code exactly, and am still getting the “divide by zero” error. I’ve also altered permissions of both the wp-content directory and the upload directory. no luck.
?
thanks for the help on this.

tewonawonga
24 April at 2:02 am

I think this is the correct code for later versions of WordPress (to fix the division-by-zero problem:

$path = ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/temp/’;
define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’,$path’);

…but I couldn’t get this to solve the *actual* problem. ;-)

Kevin Gagel
14 June at 2:52 am

I couldn’t get any of the define’s to work. Once I’d run procmon on the server and found what the directory was that it was actually trying to utilize I hit a home run and got it working. I don’t know why the addition of the define’s telling it where to store the temp’s wouldn’t work. Once I made the root directory tmp directory and assigned rights it took right off…