When I run the auto upgrade from 2.7 I get this:
"Connection Information
To perform the requested action, connection information is required."
According to Donncha it's supposed to auto upgrade. This a bug?
When I run the auto upgrade from 2.7 I get this:
"Connection Information
To perform the requested action, connection information is required."
According to Donncha it's supposed to auto upgrade. This a bug?
Dont know if its i bug, but im kinda unsure what information to fill in..
A description would have been helpfull.
bschwarting - that's ftp connection information for your server. It's the same way WP upgrades and ensures that the fiels on your server are owned by your user rather than the web server.
can't believe it. clicked the auto upgrade and 30 seconds later I am running 2.7.1!!!! good work donncha!
ok, that makes sense donncha, tks.
i'm on a VPS, curious as to what others on VPS are using for their login/pass info for auto upgrade?
I use root for most everything, and don't want to use it since I have multiple domains on this box.
It should be the ftp info. Even on a VPS, you should be in a separate web account.
unless your mu install is in the root account and not a virtual host...
You shouldn't be installing or running stuff as root. Basic security. Generally you'll want to install using an account that has apache privileges.
For what it's worth, the auto-upgrade won't work for me either because we use svn to install our software. Our individual user accounts don't even have privileges. If we ftp stuff to the server we have to chown it to the account with privs for it to run under apache. Again, for security reasons.
The auto-upgrade is really designed for the typical hosting environment where the account they give you for ftp is the account you'll run wpmu under.
kgraeme, what is the best way to setup an account that does have privileges to do the auto upgrade?
I don't know about the best way, but since you mentioned that you have multiple domains, you could create an account for each domain. Give that account the same group privs as apache. Use that account for installing the software. And then that account is what you use for the auto update ftp information.
ok, now I'm getting:
Downloading update from http://mu.wordpress.org/wordpress-mu-2.7.1.zip
Unpacking the core update
Could not copy files
Installation Failed
I run WPMU 2.7 and I it doesn't show me any option to upgrade to the new version.
I mean it is supposed to announce me that there is a new version in place, or am I doing something wrong here?
croif, it should show up in your dashboard, at the top in yellow, when logged in as site admin.
anyone have an idea on my error?
"Could not copy files
Installation Failed"
Permissions/ownership issues is my guess.
If you originally installed the files as root and then created accounts like I mentioned, you might need to chown the existing install to the new account.
Be sure the new account has apache rights or your entire site will likely stop working.
Unpacking the core update
Verifying the unpacked files
Installing the latest version
Upgrading database
WordPress upgraded successfully
:)
for others looking for help, this is what I did:
#1) Made a backup :)
#2) gpasswd -a yourftpuser apache (add your FTP user to the apache group)
#3) chown -R yourftpuser:apache /var/www/vhosts/domain.net/httpdocs (change all wordpress files to your FTP user as owner of the files and then to the apache group)
thanks to all who pointed me in the right direction!
Thanks bschwarting!
The link showed up today finally. Now upgrading! Hope all works well or I will have to upgrade manually!