emphess .NET » Projects http://www.emphess.net Freshly Draught Code Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:57:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Updating WordPress Plugins http://www.emphess.net/2010/01/14/updating-wordpress-plugins/ http://www.emphess.net/2010/01/14/updating-wordpress-plugins/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:10:55 +0000 Christoph Menge http://www.emphess.net/?p=60 Automatic updates are great, especially for web applications. Apart from saving you some time, I believe they help to enhance security since updating is really easy if you just need to push a button. The ‘traditional’ workflow involves backing up, finding and downloading the most recent (compatible) version from an external site, unzipping, uploading via FTP, calling some update script, perhaps setting a maintenance mode, etc.

However, when using shared hosting there are some pitfalls. I just trapped into the “Unable to locate WordPress Content directory (wp-content).” error. Here’s what I did:
My web hoster allows many FTP logins, so I created one especially for WordPress and set its ftp root to the WordPress root
It seems that the error message is a little misleading, because it turned out that access to the temp-directory was the actual problem. In this post, user lightwolf posted a workaround:

putenv('TMPDIR=' . ini_get('upload_tmp_dir'));

Added to wp-config.php.

This fixed my problem.

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