http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ Techie Buzz Forum Topic: IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS IF WPAU IS NOT WORKING en Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:44:59 +0000 http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/3#post-303 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:24:14 +0000 dsgncr8or 303@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p><code>Task Name: maintmode<br /> Task Description: Puts the site into maintenance mode<br /> Task Status: Failed<br /> Task Start Date: 2009-08-24 01:21:51<br /> Task End Date: 2009-08-24 01:21:51<br /> Task Log:<br /> Putting the site into maintenance mode /XXXX/XXXX/vhosts/XXXX.net/subdomains/fpr/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade<br /> Copying /XXXX/XXXX/vhosts/XXXX.net/subdomains/fpr/httpdocs/index.php to /XXXX/XXXX/vhosts/XXXX.net/subdomains/fpr/httpdocs/index.php.wpau.bak<br /> The file was successfully copied<br /> Moving the maintenance file to root<br /> ERROR -&gt; Could not put the site into maintenance mode</code></p> <p>ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED... </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/3#post-297 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:12:35 +0000 jorchav 297@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>Hello again,<br /> Back with the 5th in a row failure of WPAU to update one of my blogs. The message is a variation on the same:</p> <p>Below is the log for the upgradation<br /> Task Name: files<br /> Task Description: Backs up all the current files from the wordpress installation<br /> Task Status: Failed<br /> Task Start Date: 2009-08-12 12:03:48<br /> Task End Date: 2009-08-12 12:03:48<br /> Task Log:</p> <p>Creating files backup archive at wpau-files-bak-rGuhcarw.zip</p> <p>...<br /> (Finally...)<br /> /wp-includes/post-template.php<br /> Adding File /home/xxxxxxxx/public_html/blogsite/wp-includes/feed-rss.php to /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/blogsite/wp-includes/feed-rss.php<br /> Could not archive the files PCLZIP_ERR_READ_OPEN_FAIL (-2) : Unable to open file &#39;/home/xxxxxxx/public_html/blogsite/wp-cron.php&#39; in binary read mode</p> <p>Anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix this?</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>Jorchav </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/3#post-294 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:38:44 +0000 TheSeoGuy 294@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>Hi there</p> <p>I&#39;ve got 50+ WordPress sites running and for the majority, the Automatic Upgrade works flawlessly. On several, it appears that the hosting account / server configuration makes it difficult for the plugin to establish the correct Path to the WP installation. </p> <p>That results in multiple error messages, failure to enter maintenance mode etc etc. </p> <p>The solution is usually simple! At the &quot;site FTP details&quot; request screen, add the correct path... in the case of the site I&#39;ve just upgraded a few minutes ago, it was in a subdirectory called &quot;blog&quot; and path was entered as:<br /> /public_html/blog/</p> <p>Note: trailing slash at beginning and end of the path. All my sites are on servers using Cpanel and all have &quot;public_html&quot; as the web root directory. Your circumstances may vary...</p> <p>Editing permissions to 777 should be a last resort. If you&#39;ve given the plugin the site&#39;s FTP User ID and Password, that will almost always allow ALL required function to be performed!</p> <p>Ben Kemp<br /> The SEO Guy<br /> <a href="http://www.TheSeoGuy.co.nz" rel="nofollow">http://www.TheSeoGuy.co.nz</a> / <a href="http://www.Website-Designers.net.nz" rel="nofollow">http://www.Website-Designers.net.nz</a> </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-293 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:00:35 +0000 jorchav 293@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>Now I have four (4) blogsites in need of updating. The problem is the same:</p> <p>If that does not solve your problem please post on the forum and I will definitely take a look at the issue.Below is the log for the upgradation<br /> Task Name: files<br /> Task Description: Backs up all the current files from the wordpress installation<br /> Task Status: <strong>Failed</strong><br /> Task Start Date: 2009-08-09 14:52:47<br /> Task End Date: 2009-08-09 14:52:48<br /> Task Log:</p> <p>Creating files backup archive at wpau-files-bak-ExFatxkD.zip</p> <p>...<br /> Adding File /home/*******/public_html/blogsite/wp-includes/feed-rss.php to /home/*******/public_html/blogsite/wp-includes/feed-rss.php<br /> Could not archive the files PCLZIP_ERR_READ_OPEN_FAIL (-2) : Unable to open file &#39;/home/*******/public_html/blogsite/wp-cron.php&#39; in binary read mode &quot;</p> <p>Is this forum being monitored? I see questions but no recent answers...</p> <p>Should I be looking elsewhere for a reliable upgrade plugin?? &lt;img src=&quot;http://forum.techie-buzz.com/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_cool.gif&quot; title=&quot;8-)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> <p>jorchav </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-292 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:03:41 +0000 jorchav 292@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>This appears to be a systematic error. WPAU has failed to upgrade three of my blogsites in succession. The final log entry is the same:</p> <p>Adding File /home/xxxxxx/public_html/blogsite/wp-includes/feed-rss.php to /home/xxxxxx/public_html/blogsite/wp-includes/feed-rss.php<br /> Could not archive the files PCLZIP_ERR_READ_OPEN_FAIL (-2) : Unable to open file &#39;/home/xxxxxx/public_html/blogsite/wp-cron.php&#39; in binary read mode</p> <p>Any suggestions? Anyone? </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-290 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:31:33 +0000 Kristofer 290@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>Nothing new here - I get the same problem as most people here: </p> <p><code>Task Name: maintmode<br /> Task Description: Puts the site into maintenance mode<br /> Task Status: Failed<br /> Task Start Date: 2009-08-04 23:24:35<br /> Task End Date: 2009-08-04 23:24:35<br /> Task Log:<br /> Putting the site into maintenance mode /home/web25259/domains/domainname.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade<br /> Copying /home/web25259/domains/domainname.com/public_html/index.php to /home/web25259/domains/domainname.com/public_html/index.php.wpau.bak<br /> The file was successfully copied<br /> Moving the maintenance file to root<br /> ERROR -&gt; Could not put the site into maintenance mode </code></p> <p>I have really tried to keep file and folder permissions to 777, but haven&#39;t succeeded with the upgrade yet. Anyone got tips on where I can add the forward slash at the end of the path to my root folder? Like so: </p> <p>/home/web12345/domains/domainname.com/public_html/</p> <p>After I have given the path once (when I first gave this plugin acces) I can&#39;t find where to change it?! </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-288 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:59:52 +0000 dsgncr8or 288@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p><code>Task Name: maintmode<br /> Task Description: Puts the site into maintenance mode<br /> Task Status: Failed<br /> Task Start Date: 2009-08-03 18:46:32<br /> Task End Date: 2009-08-03 18:46:32<br /> Task Log:<br /> Putting the site into maintenance mode /******/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade<br /> Copying /******/index.php to /******/index.php.wpau.bak<br /> The file was successfully copied<br /> Moving the maintenance file to root<br /> ERROR -&gt; Could not put the site into maintenance mode</code></p> <p>Suggestions - this is during an upgrade attempt from 2.8.2-&gt;2.8.3 </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-287 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:22:22 +0000 jorchav 287@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>Hello,<br /> Ran into this problem I neither understand nor know how to fix:</p> <p>Task Name: files<br /> Task Description: Backs up all the current files from the wordpress installation<br /> Task Status: Failed<br /> Task Start Date: 2009-08-02 12:12:02<br /> Task End Date: 2009-08-02 12:12:02<br /> Task Log:<br /> ...<br /> (final log reading)<br /> Adding File /home/*******/public_html/blogsite/wp-includes/feed-rss.php to /home/*******/public_html/blogsite/wp-includes/feed-rss.php<br /> Could not archive the files PCLZIP_ERR_READ_OPEN_FAIL (-2) : Unable to open file &#39;/home/*******/public_html/blogsite/wp-cron.php&#39; in binary read mode</p> <p>How can I fix that and get on with the update?<br /> Thanks! </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-275 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:10:48 +0000 ravichauhan02 275@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p><a href="http://sizlopedia.in/" rel="nofollow">http://sizlopedia.in/</a> </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-273 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:06:55 +0000 gaiageek 273@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>I ran into this problem of the upgrade not being able to put the site in maintenance mode when upgrading from 2.7.1 to 2.8.1. I had Wordpress Automatic Upgrade version 1.2.5 already installed. I tried changing the folder permissions with no luck. Ultimately what worked, following a tip from another user above, was deleting the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin (in Wordpress), uploading it new (even though it was the same version), activating it and running it again. If you&#39;re previously upgraded Wordpress using WPAU, I recommend trying this. It seems maybe something was damaged from the previous upgrades. </p> <p>Hope this helps someone. Good luck. </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-272 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:42:29 +0000 Sanwal 272@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>any replies.... </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-271 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:41:10 +0000 Sanwal 271@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>i m getting the below error:</p> <p>Warning: copy(/home/j4jumpy/public_html/index.php.wpau.bak) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/j4jumpy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_upgrade.class.php on line 362<br /> We could not complete the upgrade please try again later, click here to check the logs. </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-248 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:59:48 +0000 gynciuz 248@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>My solution for "Maintainance mode error" was adding "/" to input '/public_html/' in the beggining of upgradeing process.</p> <p>I hope it will help for someone! Cheers! &lt;img src=&quot;http://forum.techie-buzz.com/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-247 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:59:34 +0000 gynciuz 247@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>My solution for "Maintainance mode error" was adding "/" to input '/public_html/' in the beggining of upgradeing process.</p> <p>I hope it will help for someone! Cheers! &lt;img src=&quot;http://forum.techie-buzz.com/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-246 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:59:28 +0000 gynciuz 246@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>My solution for "Maintainance mode error" was adding "/" to input '/public_html/' in the beggining of upgradeing process.</p> <p>I hope it will help for someone! Cheers! &lt;img src=&quot;http://forum.techie-buzz.com/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-241 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:19:10 +0000 stoptheinsanity 241@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>Matt;</p> <p>Next time you might try, before using WPAU, putting a copy of your index.php like this... <a href="http://matt-thorn.com/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://matt-thorn.com/index.php</a>.</p> <p>BTW, I like your site, clean, relevant, researched... </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-240 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:09:07 +0000 matt-thorn 240@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>Thanks, stoptheinsan. I fixed the problem with file permission a while back. (For some reason, file permissions occasionally get screwed up, but I was able to fix them by using my domain host's online file manager.</p> <p>My blog is not my site, but rather a directory on my site. (<a href="http://matt-thorn.com/wordpress/)" rel="nofollow">http://matt-thorn.com/wordpress/)</a>. The index.php file is also in that directory, and there is no other copy anywhere else. </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-239 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:37:06 +0000 stoptheinsanity 239@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>Matt;</p> <blockquote><p>Also, there is one apparently quite important file, index.php.wpau.bak, whose permissions I can't change, because they are owned not by me but by some entity named "httpd". How there can be something on my own site (and not even in the root directory) that is owned by some entity other than me is a worrying mystery.</p></blockquote> <p>I found this file in my Wordpress folder, but it is listed as owned by vuser, i.e. me. If you view it with your site manager it is simply the backup copy that WPAU makes of your index file. It should be attributed to you, the owner. I would see nothing wrong with deleting the file.</p> <p>As to your situation not being the same as mine and TKen's, what is different? Is it that your site is not in the root folder? If not, is it possible that you installed wordspress to a sub folder and moved the index.php file up one level above that? If that is the case, it would seem that it is essentially the same as my case. </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-238 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:40:44 +0000 matt-thorn 238@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>I'm glad to see that stoptheinsan and TKen were able to fix their problems, but unfortunately their situation does not apply to me.<br /> susan, no, I haven't tried the manual upgrade yet. Like you, I'm afraid of what might go wrong, and the directions are not exactly simple.<br /> I just continue to be disgusted that the author of this plugin, after starting this thread, has not written a single response despite the fact that may of us have yet to resolve this problem. </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-236 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:12:07 +0000 stoptheinsanity 236@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>That is interesting because WPAU has worked before without any issues on my site as well. All of a sudden it didn't. I thought I must have imagined that it worked seamlessly. </p> <p>Wonder what happened?</p> <p>BTW, did you get a reminder to clean up old files? </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-235 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:08:54 +0000 TKen 235@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>stoptheinsanity: YES! That was it for me too. My blog is my website, and I did not have the index.php file in the WP directory, just in the public root. Copying the index.php to the WP directory did the trick! (It's always been this way, why the WPAU didn't work this time I don't know.) </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-233 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:01:23 +0000 stoptheinsanity 233@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>I fixed this WPAU situation fairly easily.</p> <p>First I had to deal with the FTP Permissions and how to format them:</p> <p><strong>FTP Username format I used was:</strong><br /> <a href="mailto:myusername@myblog.com">myusername@myblog.com</a></p> <p><strong>FTP Host:</strong><br /> myblog.com</p> <p><strong>FTP Folder</strong><br /> My blog is my website therefore the index.php file is modified a little and is in the root directory. Specifically in my case the index.php is located is /var/www/html/ but the WordPress files and directory structure are in /var/www/html/wordpress/. </p> <p>The index.php modification is the last line of code telling the index where the files are located. If your site was running fine, then this shouldn't be a worry. </p> <p><strong>Here's the code for the index.php if it's one level up:</strong></p> <p>/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */<br /> require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');<br /> ?&gt;</p> <p>The reason WPAU couldn't set my site into maintenance mode was that I had moved the file index.php out of the /wordpress/ directory and up one level. I did not leave a copy of index.php in the wordpress directory.</p> <p>The workaround should be a permanent fix. I simply <strong> COPIED </strong> the index.php out of the root directory (/var/www/html/) and into the /var/www/html/wordpress/ directory. Then WPAU worked flawlessly (one note - I didn't actually open a new browser tab to verify that the public saw the maintenance mode message.)</p> <p>After running the upgrade I checked that BOTH index.php files were in their respective locations. They are. I compared the content. The WPAU must modify the index.php in the /wordpress/ directory and tell it that the path is now the normal path for all files, etc. But it left the one in the root directory alone. And I left them both alone. I didn't do my normal housekeeping and clean up the extra index.php file.</p> <p><strong>Bottom line</strong> - Web browsers see the first level index.php, but WPAU looks for one in the /wordpress/ directory. So unless something hinky happens I am leaving this alone.</p> <p>Flawless upgrade... </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-231 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:07:01 +0000 susan 231@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>Matt,<br /> Did you do it? Upgrade manually? How did it go? I'm too scared to do it!!! </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-229 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:54:12 +0000 matt-thorn 229@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>dermod, I couldn't agree more with your first paragraph. But I'm not sure what the final "Duh" meant. I don't think you are impugning the intelligence of those of us who have still not succeeded, since at least two of us have pointed out that the solution you offered (and which had been suggested earlier) did not work for us. Like Susan, I've tried every suggestion offered in this thread, and have even tried them in various combinations, to no avail. Since the creator of the plugin obviously has nothing more to say on the subject, I have decided to give up on it and perform the upgrade manually. Too bad, because, as you point out, this is (or should be) a great plugin. As I said before, I'm just glad I encountered this problem before donating any money to the creator. If he can't muster the enthusiasm to help his users, then I doubt the plugin has much of a future. </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-226 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:33:32 +0000 dermod 226@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>This is the most frustrating example of the reputation of a great plugin being destroyed by sloppy follow-up and a miserable lack of attention to the detail necessary to make people happy when using it. Upgrading is a panicky procedure - and if it goes wrong it's awful.</p> <p>Because there appear to be so many people on this thread offering different suggestions and no one seeming to provide any different answers, I'll just offer what I did that worked. </p> <p>Like most people here, I had "permission denied" errors when trying to enter maintenance mode. I fixed it by ensuring that the FTP path had a trailing slash. That's it. </p> <p>instead of /pub-html I put /pub-html/</p> <p>Duh. </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-225 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:33:00 +0000 susan 225@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>This is what I'm getting:</p> <p>Warning: copy(/home/xxxxx/public_html/index.php.wpau.bak) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_upgrade.class.php on line 357<br /> We could not complete the upgrade please try again later, click here to check the logs.</p> <p>I have no idea what to do. I tried EVERYthing posted here. Nothing works. Please help me. I just want to upgrade to 2.6.3.</p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-224 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:50:03 +0000 matt-thorn 224@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <blockquote><p>If your webserver is using Apache, you have to let 'apache' the user to write instead of your 'username'. chown'ng the files worked for me, then I jsut did a chown -R back on the, to my username:group. </p></blockquote> <p>Umm... Would you mind translating that into English? How do I let "'apache' the user" write? And what is "chown'ng"? Does it require protective headgear or a license of some kind? </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-223 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:12:18 +0000 P4rD0nM3 223@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>If your webserver is using Apache, you have to let 'apache' the user to write instead of your 'username'. chown'ng the files worked for me, then I jsut did a chown -R back on the, to my username:group. </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-218 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:29:19 +0000 archey 218@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>Thank you ascension2020 deleting the index.php.wpau.bak file was just what I needed. </p> http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/important-instructions-if-wpau-is-not-working/page/2#post-215 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:21:28 +0000 matt-thorn 215@http://forum.techie-buzz.com/ <p>ablears suggestion did not work for me. Nothing has worked for me. Does Keith feel any sense of responsibility for his product at all? How can he expect people to make donations when there is zero support? </p>