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Centos: Wordpress Download failed. Failed to write request to temporary file.

Posted July 23, 2014 3.3k views

With all things being constant, I suddenly started getting this error when trying to update wordpress via the control panel. It was working perfectly a few weeks ago and I haven’t made any changes. I have the right file permissions.

Was there changes to the network or increase in security of some sort?

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  • asb July 23, 2014
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    That error is most likely caused by an issue with file permissions. There isn’t anything on the DigitalOcean end that would have led to it. Could you check to make sure something didn’t change on your system? What’s the output of ls -la -R in your wp-content directory?

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hainoogen July 23, 2014

Thats what puzzled me, no system changes were made since the last auto update, which was about two weeks ago.

drwxrwsr-x 9 nginx nginx 4096 Jul 23 18:05 .
drwxrwsr-x 5 nginx nginx 4096 Jul 23 17:47 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nginx nginx 1100 Apr 4 17:00 advanced-cache.php
drwxrwsr-x 5 nginx nginx 4096 Jan 31 08:24 cache
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nginx nginx 28 Jan 8 2012 index.php
drwxrwsr-x 11 nginx nginx 4096 Jul 23 07:57 plugins
drwxrwsr-x 7 nginx nginx 4096 Jun 28 00:58 themes
drwxrwsr-x 2 nginx nginx 4096 Jul 23 17:42 tmp
drwxrwxr-x 2 nginx nginx 4096 Jul 7 21:31 upgrade
drwxrwsr-x 5 nginx nginx 4096 Jan 1 2014 uploads
drwxrwsr-x 2 nginx nginx 4096 Jul 1 05:09 w3tc-config

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