Unable to install 5.8 as its fails?

No. I think you’re right that it’s a permissions problem.

Hi Steve Stern,

Alterations to file permissions using Filezilla were unable to solve the permissions block. So instead, I had to upload 5.8 manually. Luckily I know how to do that.

WordPress 5.8 is now installed.

Thank you for your reply.

KR,
Ian.

I am having the same issue but wondering why updating through the wordpress dashboard tries to download the file with the name: wordpress-5.8-no-content.zip

This is the entire text from the error message screen:

Update WordPress

Downloading update from https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/release/wordpress-5.8-no-content.zip…

Download failed.: The checksum of the file (af4ee6d1ba2a052dc661de39c5480895) does not match the expected checksum value (e373c22149dc6e7069ec94450b396b78).

Installation failed.`

Why does this file name have “no-data” in the name when the file on the WP download page does not?

please help!

Portadam,

You may need to install WordPress update directly into the folder on your server. If you are using your own server to host your website?

First, unzip the WinZip folder to a new folder. Then copy everything inside it into the root directory of the WordPress site you want to upgrade. BUT DON’T OVERWRITE the wp-content folder and the wp-config.php file. This is exactly what I did yesterday evening to the offline version of my website. The online version accepted 5.8 without a problem. I even checked the file permissions in both, and it didn’t matter how high I went with the numbers; Synology allows you to go to 777; the offline version refused to accept the upgrade by the normal method.

Best of luck Portadam

Good day,

@portadam, any luck with your update? Having the same problem until now.

“Update WordPress

Downloading update from https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/release/wordpress-5.8-no-content.zip…

Download failed.: The checksum of the file (d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e) does not match the expected checksum value (e373c22149dc6e7069ec94450b396b78).

Installation failed.`”

Hope @pr0ject10n suggestion will work, give it a shot.

Thanks for the response. I checked with our hosting service, GoDaddy, and they said it is not a problem with their server, it is a WordPress problem. I’m not confident in doing this manually myself.

See https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/updating-wordpress/#manual-update

Thanks Steve. I looked at that support page and seems like there is room for human (me) error. I’ll wait until WordPress resolves the issue so it can automatically update.

OK, folks. I’m closing this topic as we’re too deep.

If you need support then per the forum guidelines please start your own topic.

A lot more people will see your post, and that way you stand a good chance of getting the assistance you want. Despite any similarity in symptoms, your issue is likely to be completely different because of possible differences in physical servers, accounts, hosts, plugins, theme, configurations, etc. Thus one problem, on one setup is not indicative of the functionality and reliability of an application as a whole.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum-user-guide/faq/#i-have-the-same-problem-can-i-just-reply-to-someone-elses-post-with-me-too

https://www.ads-software.com/support/guidelines/#post-in-the-best-place

You can do so here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/#new-post