Uploading plugins & themes hangs at "Downloading package…"

  • Resolved Philtheone

    (@philtheone)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    I upgraded a fully-working WP 2.9.2 site yesterday to 3.0.

    When using the plugin manager or the themes manager in 3.0, it hangs at “Downloading install package from https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/download/blahblah.zip…” when uploading a new file.

    The thing is, it actually does install the theme/plugin correctly, but does not update this screen to tell me the status so I have to guess when it’s finished.

    I have tried using nginx and httpd; it’s the same. I have tried with php 5.1.6 and 5.3.3; it’s the same. I have tried Firefox and IE8; it’s the same. Server OS is Centos 5.1, MySQL 5.0.7.

    I have tried installing a fresh WordPress 3.0; it’s the same.

    Uploading other things, such as images to the media section, works fine, and the progress bar works.

    Any suggestions are greatly received!

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  • Try adding AddType x-mapp-php5 .phpto the top of your WordPress .htaccess file.

    Or increasing the available memory:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/253495#post-1017842

    Thread Starter Philtheone

    (@philtheone)

    Unfortunately this didn’t work. My php.ini was already set to a very large amount of memory (256M) which I have now reduced to a more reasonable level, and changing the available memory to match in wp-config made no difference.

    I am using nginx but tried what you said in httpd to no avail.

    However, I have sorted it out.

    I turned WordPress debug mode on and noticed a smattering of errors relating to zlib compression. So I went into php.ini and set the following option:

    zlib.output_compression = Off

    It now works.

    I tried setting output_handler to ob_gzhandler but this breaks it as well.

    Should I be enabling zlib, etc?

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