fatdiver

Sorry, posted too quickly – it was a long mail queue on our shared hosting. Installed WP-Mail-SMTP plugin, switched to using Mandrill SMTP and bingo – instant email delivery.

I’ve had the “Could not copy file.: /public_html/x/wp-admin/css/theme-editor.dev.css” problem for a few upgrades now and have been manually updating. After trying everything I could think of to get the automatic update working again, I finally cracked it – by paying attention to the article about upgrading: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Upgrading_WordPress

Note that your files all need to be owned by the user under which your Apache server executes, or you will receive a dialog box asking for “connection information,” and you will find that no matter what you enter, it won’t work. See man chown. If you do not know which user runs the httpd the output of ps auxw | grep -E ‘http|apache|www’ or ps auxw might help, see man ps.

My apache server is run by the user ‘nobody’.. As soon as I changed my public_html folder recursively to change owner to ‘nobody’ – the automatic upgrade worked straight away.

Here’s what I did via SSH (although I’m no expert)

cd /home/(whatever-your-domain-root-is)/public_html
chown -R nobody .

Basically get to your public_html folder, chown is ‘changer owner’, -R makes it do all folders and files in the installation, and the full stop at the end means it’ll avoid system files with two full stops in them

This may not be the best/safest way to do things (like I say, I’m no expert), but this worked for me

Aha! – found the answer (for me at least) here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/413901

Added this line to wp-config.php and can now access admin for other hosted sites.

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]);

As an aside WordPress, this would be a good idea to document/fix. I’m guessing lots of people using WP 3.0 for multi site will be hosting multiple domains too.

Similar problem here. Upgraded a single site to WordPress 3 and enabled multi user. Everything works fine on the main site but I can’t get at the backend of any new sites I create – same symptom as csw11235 above – just keep getting bounced back to the login page.

I’ve created new users, recreated sites, hacked around with the tables and config files but still no luck. There must be a better way to debug this type of problem?