Evert Wagenaar's picture
Evert Wagenaar - Wed, 2017/08/16 - 15:15

Hi all,

 

I tried this for several days now. Unfortunately it does't work. I use the WordPress Jessy Virtual Appliance with Parallels Desktop 12.

 

Update WordPress

Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-4.8.1-no-content.zip…

Download failed.: cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 299976 milliseconds with 5192319 out of 6532179 bytes received

Installation Failed

 

I get the 'Download failed.: cURL error 28:....' message after a few minutes. Seems it times out when iy's almost done...

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Evrty

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Jeremy Davis's picture

Jeremy Davis - Thu, 2017/08/17 - 01:48
So perhaps JanKo's suggestion might help?

There is also a possibility that it's related to permissions. It may be caching the download to a location it can write to, but if so, then the last step would be to move the complete download to where ever it will be unzipped. If it can't write to this final location, then that may be causing this issue?

You can test that fairly easily by logging into your server via SSH and then manually download it like this: 

curl https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-4.8.1-no-content.zip
If that succeeds, then that demonstrates that the issue is likely not networking (unless it's intermittent network problems).

If so, try giving the webserver account (www-data) full read/write access to the WordPress webroot (/var/www/wordpress) like this: 

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress
Please note that this isn't WordPress security best practice, but it's the price that you need to pay for the convenience of being able to do updates via the WebUI.

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