By jensonchew
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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I have this how do I change to www-data www-data because at the moment i am seeing this <br> <br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data root 2359 Sep 12 06:57 wp-load.php <br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data root 31909 Dec 12 21:37 wp-login.php <br>
I had this problem and changing the owner on the wordpress folder worked for me <br> <br>sudo chown -R www-data /path/to/wordpress (in my case is was /home/wordpress)
This helped also with the failure when trying to upgrade to 3.8.1: <br> <br>sudo chown -R www-data /path/to/wordpress (in my case is was /home/wordpress)
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