Upload error (code -200)

What happens when you try to upload a plugin in WP’s plugin installer interface without this plugin being active?

David

Without the plugin it works OK. There are no problems, if it’s below 2MB (which is why I installed ‘Upload Larger Plugins’). But once I activate ‘Upload Larger Plugins’ it throws that error – even on tiny – e.g. 18kb plugins.

Thanks for responding – it is much appreciated!

If you update to today’s version 1.6 release, what is the wording shown above the drag/drop uploader box?

David

“If you have a plugin in a .zip format, you may install it by uploading it here.”

And that’s definitely version 1.6 if you check on your ‘Plugins’ page?

Yes – definitely version 1.6.

Unfortunately I don’t have any good guesses. The 1.6 update added a prior warning if the system’s temporary directory was not writeable (the plugin works via receiving chunks, one at a time, from the browser and writing them to a temporary location, then stitching them all together at the end). Does anything get logged in your webserver’s PHP logs? What version of WP are you using?

WordPress 5.6.

I needed to use ‘Upload Larger Plugins’ to let me install ‘UpdraftPlus’.
And…I needed to use UpdraftPlus because this is for a site migration and I have limited access to the original site – so I won’t be able to view PHP logs, etc.

That is unfortunate! I was hoping you might be able to give me FTP access so that I can investigate the problem. Usually you only see that error if the hosting is set up with bad file permissions.

You could install the free version of UpdraftPlus. The backups it takes are identical, except you won’t get a backup of any additional files that the owner has manually added into the root directory of the website. You could use a plugin like WP File Manager to inspect whether any such non-WP files even exist.

I’ve requested FTP access – so I can just install UpdraftPlus via FTP…

I wouldn’t be at all surprised that the hosting where the site is currently set-up is far from being well configured.

If you are willing and able to share FTP details, then you could send them to me using the contact form at https://www.simbahosting.co.uk – I might at least be able to improve the error message if I can discern what the cause is.

OK David – will do. Thanks.