Unable to locate WordPress Root directory. Installation Failed

  • Yes another one and yes I have read and reread the zillions of threads on this already and I’m not willing to risk blowing up my site with a manual install unless left with absolutely no choice.

    I moved this blog from the wordpress server to my own local machine using a migration plugin that seemed to work pretty well. Near as I can tell ftp is running, I had an existing user not root but with root access that gave me this error. I can’t get into the several days worth things I tried just to get past the “cannot connect to server” error in red I WAS getting.
    I have created a user specifically in the ftp group and still no go. File and folder permission are wide open 777 from docroot down. WordPress in in docroot/wordpress. Using to ROOT account gives me the “cannot connect to server” error in red. Using any other even with rrot access gives the “Unable to locate WordPress Root directory. Installation Failed” error.

    I put a lot of work into this so far and I really am not comfortable with the steps for a manual upgrade.

    Any help would be eternally appreciated as I am at the end of my options here.
    Thanks

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  • Thread Starter Tiribulus

    (@tiribulus)

    FTP is not the problem according this:. ONLINE TESTER

    However I am trying to do this upgrade from inside my network using localhost as the hostname. Both that AND using tiribulus.net give me the same “Unable to locate WordPress Root directory. Installation Failed”
     error. It’s something with WordPress.

    Hi guys, sorry to jump in on your post.. but I can’t seem to find where I can post my issue.
    I’m having the same problem. I get this message: “Unable to locate WordPress Root directory. Installation Failed”

    I get it every time I try to upgrade my plugins and to the next wordpress upgrade. I’m not sure what’s happening or how I can fix this. Please help..

    Thank you.
    Kathy

    @kathycohen: If you require assistance then, as per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic instead of tagging onto someone else’s topic.

    This 5 month old topic references an old version of WordPress.

    Thank you so so much for your help.. I realised that..
    I really appreciate it.. sorry i’m new to this.

    Cheers
    Kathy

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