siggma

…SOLVED…
It’s apparently dependent on the file owner and/or permissions. After making sure I’m the owner of all files in the /wordpress tree the upgrade process no longer asks for ftp connection information and upgrades both wordpress and auto upgrade plugins correctly.

To make sure the webserver is the owner I use “chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www” on my Debian home server. For Hosted sites it’s unlikely it’s an owner issue. I use a local network to manipulate files so sometimes they end up being created and owned by root.

From FTP it may be that you need to change all files to 0777 rwxrwxrwx (Owner, Group and Public Read, Write, Execute) using chmod or your favorite FTP program. Then try the upgrade again.

Once the upgrade is finished it’s a good idea to set permissions back to default, which should be sufficient to do the upgrade correctly. I believe the WordPress default permission is 644 (rw-r–r–) which means owner can read, write and execute, and group and public can only read. For security purposes it’s a good idea to at least be sure you wp-settings.php is set this way in case php barfs and spews your database login information all over the net. ??
-Tom

Same here. I have another blog on the same server that works fine so where is the upgrade or upload setting?

Thanks, I removed the file mentioned so it’s not usable. Thanks for the information. I sent email to the address above.

Turned out to be windows so I upgraded to fedora and it’s now 100 times faster and things work fine. It’s some kind of issue with PHP and IIS.

I have two issues that seem unrelated, but I think they are related. Thus they are posted here.

First, I get corrupt output every so often. Usually when logging off or using the editor. I see random code, mostly three boxes, some html and something about atom feeds. The only common element I’ve see so far is the three boxes just inside a chevron that are considered incorrect characters. If they display as boxes they are probably incorrect for the character coding being used or specified.

I’ve tried messing with PHP and searching for bugs but the only php match was corrected back in 2003. (system specs at bottom)

Second, I suspect the corruption and tiny mce issues are related, possibly to the character encoding specified somewhere?

Every so often my output gets corrupted in such a way that it doesn’t mess up the screen but random garbage appears, usually above the editor window. It seems to be related to something in wordpress, an imporperly coded block perhaps, more than likely something to do with output since the corruption only occurs under wordpress and it’s very sporadic, like when certain code gets executed…

System:
X86 Server 2003
-System software-
IIS 6.0
PHP 5.2.3
MySQL 5.027
-Web scripts-
Gallery2 2.2
TNG (Next generation of genealogy)
Wordpress

WordPress is the only application that displays corrupt output so it’s unlikely there is an issue with the underlying configuration.
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