WordPress Update Fail

Published January 14, 2012 | By master

Automatic updating of WordPress has been failing (plugin updating is fine) on blogs installed in sub-directories:

Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.3.1-partial-0.zip…

Unpacking the update…

Could not copy files.

Installation Failed

Things tried:

removing the .htaccess file
deleting the updates area
repermissioning files
adding various blocks of code to config and htaccess
verified our FTP server was the ‘correct’ one.
tried localhost, direct IP address, host name and a dozen others.

This sort of thing has happened before, and we’re unsure if it’s a server issue or WordPress one. Automatic install of new sites using cPanel works (with current version – 3.3.1).

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