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Updating to Wordpress 3.8 Failed on Droplet Image that Comes with Wordpress Pre-installed.

Posted December 18, 2013 13.1k views
Hi, Recently I tried to update the Droplet I've installed from the image with wordpress installed, to version 3.8, but failed, below is the error messages I received: Downloading update from https://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.8-new-bundled.zip… Unpacking the update… The update cannot be installed because we will be unable to copy some files. This is usually due to inconsistent file permissions.: wp-admin/includes/update-core.php Installation Failed May I know whether your side would be able to help? Or it's beyond your responsibilities? Thanks. Cheers, Jenson
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kamaln7 December 21, 2013
@admin: Run the follownig command as well, does that fix it? 
sudo chown -R www-data /path/to/wordpress
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pablo December 18, 2013
Make sure all of the files & directories in your WordPress web directory is owned by www-data:www-data. To check, execute: 
ls -la /path/to/WordPress/Installation/

and make sure there is no root:root sprinkled in there.
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kamaln7 December 18, 2013
Running 
usermod -a -G www-data wordpress
should fix it.

Let me know if that works.
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jensonchew December 19, 2013
Hi Kamal Nasser, it didn't work.

Hi Pablo, I execute the command you've given, however, it returned this error message:

Cannot Access /path/to/WordPress/Installation/
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kamaln7 December 19, 2013
You must replace /path/to/WordPress/Installation/ with the actual path to your wordpress installation for the command to work.
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admin11081 December 21, 2013
Running 'usermod -a -G www-data wordpress' doesn't fix it.
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laura December 23, 2013
changing the owner to www-data with sudo chown worked great. thanks!
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lmorris January 17, 2014
I'm in need of additional help with this. I'm familiar with dev on sites/wordpress but super new to digitalocean. I can access the console but unable to figure out what my installation path is to update. What part do I include? http://192.241.239.91/wp-admin/update-core.php I've tried every combo so far and I'm still receiving "No such file or directory"
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kamaln7 January 19, 2014
@Lindsey: I assume you're using nginx, can you pastebin your nginx virtualhost config?
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kevin_stone January 24, 2014
I have this how do I change to www-data www-data because at the moment i am seeing this

-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data root 2359 Sep 12 06:57 wp-load.php
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data root 31909 Dec 12 21:37 wp-login.php
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