WP HTTP Error: Could not open handle for fopen()

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Any help ? :) It says so @ Aksimet , also.

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Might be a connectivity issue

Reply 1 2010-02-02

I think you may have a connectivity issue with your appliance. Try pinging Google's public DNS service:

ping 8.8.8.8

Also you can try diagnosing this manually from the command line with curl and wget.

Found some info but no clear easy answer.

Reply 2 2011-01-22

The WordPress Dashboard Troubleshooting section suggests:

Solution:Confirm you are properly connected to the internet then do the Automatic Upgrade again.

I also found a couple of old posts about it (see one here) and a 2yo WP bug which was fixed. There is also a more recent post on Ubuntu forums but it doesn't really have a fix. It seems a workaround for him was to put the WordPress server outside the hardware Firewall he was using.

Are you behind some sort of Firewall?