Cannot Install/Update Plugins Since Upgrade to 3.2

I had same problem again. Came here and found I had answered it myself. Lol

All,
I′m a wordpress dummy and have the same message trying to install simple twitter plug in.
See the advice as below, but I really don′t know how to find this is my wordpress, so I can try to change.
Can one of you pls let me know where to find these settings?
thanks
claudia

1)You’ve had to create a temporary directory yourself (by chmod’ing it to 777 and setting the constant

2)PHP Safe Mode was “On” and I turned it off

For posterity:

I run WP on a windows server with the PHP module in IIS. I recently encountered this error, and solved it by adding the iuser (IIS User process) permissions to the entire wordpress sub-directory. Previously, only wp-content needed write permissions.

I just figured this out on the site I’m having this issue with. It’s a site I built on a dev server, then haven’t been able to update successfully since, with the same “destination directory doesn’t exist or isn’t writable”. For me, the answer was in wp-config.php, in this line:

define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’, ‘/home/xxxxxx/public_html/wp-content/uploads’);

It was all set up for the dev host, and for some reason the settings didn’t change with the BackupBuddy migration.

Obviously not sure if this is the same as anyone else’s issue, but a good thing to check.

@heather Acton

Please post a new topic.

@kmessinger – I wasn’t posting a problem, but rather a solution to the problem here.

@heather Acton

ahah! You have caught a error in my speed reading! We are both up too late!

@jimmy
What host do you have?

@ Everyone
I have GoDaddy 4GH Deluxe hosting (unlimited sites, unlimited bandwith, 150gb storage and 25 MySql databases etc) which they tell they made specifically for using WordPress self hosted – including the WordPressMU or MS. Its a shared server. Do I have to have a dedicated server to get these permissions?

My back story on this:
Everything worked fine regarding permissions until I added the OSCommerce to my account, its an App available in my Application admin like word press. Its recommended in their top apps right below WordPress. And lots of plug ins on the www.ads-software.com say their based on OSCommerce so I installed it.

Godaddy says they answer all issues within a 3hr time line, I’m on hour 5 waiting going into 6 hrs so i came back here hoping to find an answer.

Hey All,

I think I found the solution on my end. On the same manage my applications page GoDaddy has (thats where you install/update/uninstall your applications like wordpress)

I updated my version of WordPress from 3.2.1 to 3.3.1 and THAT was the issue. I did a full rollback to 3.2.1 and BAM! everything is Just fine and dandy joy joy joy out the wazoo.

So on my end (might just be my install alone) something with version 3.3.1 doesn’t jive and causes a fail on updates or installs of plug ins and themes. So if your on version 3.3.1 and having this issue do a rollback.

I told the GoDaddy support member that same news. They finally answered me after 6.5 hrs 3.5 hrs later than their 3hr posted response time but reliable hosting for wordpress is an issue for another topic post.

It may be a problem with the .htaccess file preventing updating.