kjarrett Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 I thought I just did this a while back for a Wordpress upgrade (new release btw, v2.2.2). Now the file manager refuses to extract it and says something about needing v2.0 of winzip or something? TIA, -kj- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 I just tried this on my site I created a zip file, then in file manager I uploaded it clicked on the file name and selected extract I saw the file name: File Type: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract then a list of each file as it was extracted if this is not working for you then open a help desk ticket to the techs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 I have found when uploading the Wordpress updates they will not extract if you do not remove the old files first. I mean it will not unzip a new copy of a file that already exists. So I delete the old files first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nortk Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 To second what Bruce and Don just said...I just tried Don's test, and the first time I extracted, I got the same message you did, followed by a list of the extracted files. The second time I tried it, I got the same message you did, but no files listed (because the extraction won't overwrite files that exist). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjarrett Posted August 7, 2007 Author Share Posted August 7, 2007 Bruce, I've done this before, I make my own zip because my folder structure is slightly different from what's in the official zip, upload and un-archive, and voila, it overwrites. Don, I get the exact same message, but no list of extracted files. I can see them with 'show contents' but they will not extract. I will test another zip file to be sure then open a ticket. -kj- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjarrett Posted August 7, 2007 Author Share Posted August 7, 2007 Well you all are right, but the weird thing is I *SWEAR* I've done it before this way, and it overwrote the files in question, but, I could be wrong, it's happened at least twice today. Thanks for the speedy replies. Peace... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Glad its sorted out. Yes it would be nice to have the files overwrite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 It may have worked before but it hasn't in at least a year for sure that I know of. I create my own zip files too and just delete the old files and extract the new ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjarrett Posted August 7, 2007 Author Share Posted August 7, 2007 Spoke too soon. Just broke my site. I have done this many times before. I have backups, root and database. They are valid. I carefully deleted the files as instructed here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended and I took all the preliminary steps including disabling plugins. Again I have done this many times. I used FileZilla to delete the files. I then extracted the archive, which worked perfectly. I then attempted to run the upgrade script, and was told I had insufficient permissions. Verified the file was there via CPanel file manager, even clicked the link to open the page right from there, no dice. So I deleted what I uploaded, restored my local backup, and now I get this: Warning: main(/home/lwwtmlws/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/lwwtmlws/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 100 Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/lwwtmlws/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/lwwtmlws/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 100 Restored my database via CPanel, no dice. Same error. Is this something easy before I enter a ticket? -kj- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjarrett Posted August 7, 2007 Author Share Posted August 7, 2007 Ticket has been entered. It's a permissions problem. Apparently everything was CHMOD'd 700 after the unzip via the server. Why? I've never seen that before. The site is now up but I am painstakingly resetting permissions - for example, I can't log in, but suspect I will be able to shortly. Self-diagnosis and troubleshooting skillz FTW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 No idea why the permissions would change, never had it happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashram Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 I have had situations where I have created a directory, upload a zip file and it won't extract into the forum, I select the file and then select extract files here and get nothing at all. So it isn't an isolated case. Yes I understand that someone is talking about unzipping files into existing situation, but it might be related. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmfrey Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Ownership problems tend to cause what is being seen here. Sometimes the automated tools (Fantastico) will install a package as the web server user (uid 99 - nobody). Another area that this happens with is uploading files through an application other than FTP or CPANEL. Those applications (Joomla, etc.) are running as the user "nobody" and so files uploaded through them are owned by that user. When the ownership is set as the web server user and the permission are not xx7, you will not have the correct privileges to overwrite the files. This means extracting archives, deleting, or changing permissions will not work. When this happens the only thing you can do is open a ticket to have the ownership/permissions changed. It would be nice to have the ability to reset this through cpanel or through a cron job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 While you are correct in what you are saying that is not his problem. If the file exists it will not get overwritten. It's the way the cPanel zip utility is currently working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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