cant update my website

  • I am managing a website for a student organization at my college.
    I tried updating wordpress to its latest version and it gave me an error:

    Downloading update from https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/release/wordpress-4.4.2-new-bundled.zip…

    Warning: touch(): Unable to create file C:/xampp/apps/wordpress/tmp/wordpress-4.tmp because No such file or directory in /vwh/stuorg/www.sankalp.stuorg.iastate.edu/www/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 155

    Warning: unlink(C:/xampp/apps/wordpress/tmp/wordpress-4.tmp): No such file or directory in /vwh/stuorg/www.sankalp.stuorg.iastate.edu/www/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 457
    Download failed.: Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable.

    Installation Failed

    i have just strted using i t and it would be great if anyone can help me out.

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  • Hi,

    Sounds like your web server isn’t setup properly.

    1.) C:/xampp/apps/wordpress/tmp/wordpress-4.tmp <— that’s local address on the computer and XAMPP is the hosting software, web server

    2.) /vwh/stuorg/www.sankalp.stuorg.iastate.edu/www/wp-admin/includes/ <—- that’s the directly the webserver and WordPress are knowing where things are sitting.

    You could locate in your WordPress directory a file called ‘wp_config.php’. Edit that file and see if you by any chance have a line that looks similar to this;

    define('WP_TEMP_DIR', 'C:/xampp/apps/wordpress/tmp/');

    I’m not 99% positive you would have it, but just maybe you do. If you do, remove it.. delete it, without deleting anything else… just that line ‘define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’, ‘C:/xampp/apps/wordpress/tmp/’);` and save the wp_config.php file after.

    Then last thing left to do is try the update of WordPress again.

    Let me know if that fixes it.

    Thank you, Cheers!

    Thread Starter sinchitha

    (@sinchitha)

    thanks where can i find the wordpress directory? to look for file ‘wp_config.php’?

    i just downloaded the latest version of wordpresss and i do not have the older ones

    Thank you Artur, your advice worked for me.

    Wow! Thank you Artur! I found about your solution from another thread.
    You were right, it was that line in my wp-config file.

    This site I was working on had been on Godaddy, and they have this setting in the wp-config. I removed it and now all working fine.

    Thanks!

    Hello,

    I have the same issue and I have already removed this line from the wp-confing.php
    define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’, ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/’);
    still does not work to upload the plugins,

    Any advice ?

    Thank you

    I’ve done it.. it worked — I just had the wrong file at first ??

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