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

Posted July 23, 2014

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?

Thanks

hainoogen

Andrew SB • July 23, 2014

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