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Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#13959 closed defect (bug) (worksforme)
Clustered hosting?
| Reported by: | JonnyTee | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Upgrade/Install | Version: | 3.0 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | reporter-feedback close |
| Cc: | Focuses: |
Description
I run WordPress on a free hosting account at Xtreemhost, and I would very much like to install plugins and the like directly from my site. I knew there must have been an error in the code somewhere, but I opened a ticket with Xtreemhost. This was their reply:
There is still a bug in Wordpress which does not allow to use the theme and plugin installer for clustered hosting architectures.
We are using a clustered hosting architecture because of better performance and failover techniques.
I would recommend uploading the themes or plugins using normal FTP, which will work without problems.
Of course, I know of many people who use a similar way of hosting...and have this exact problem. Is there a hack of some sort to fix this...or can you fix it by 3.1? Thank you!
Change History (7)
#1
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16 years ago
- Component General → Upgrade/Install
- Priority high → normal
- Severity major → normal
#2
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16 years ago
And how do they handle uploads?
We have no insight into their architecture. If FTP is required there, the FS_METHOD define can be set to the appropriate means of accessing the filesystem (either ftpext or ftpsockets). That might work. Hosts that do clustering usually need to provide a plugin, as wordpress.com and others do for replication of uploads.
#3
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16 years ago
I'm signing up for an account to test it out. Assuming i've got the right host: http://xtreemhost.com - Claims to be free with a .cz.cc domain, So i'll see if i can figure out any oddities
#4
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16 years ago
This is motre likely down to their configuration (one of the few times I can immediately point the finger away from WP) - they have a sister site 000webhosting.com that I had an account with (free hosting) and normally perfect WP upload/upgrade functions were glitchy on there too.
One of my hosts uses cloud hosting and WP has no issues with it (other than the universal battle of trying to get a 2.9.2 upgrade to 3.0 to actually work).
Not convinced WP is at fault re the original ticket.
#5
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16 years ago
A fairly buck-passing response from the hosting provider there I think. It's perfectly possible to use the installer on clustered hosting environments. I know because I ran a WP site on one of them for more years than the auto-upgrader has existed for.
Of course that doesn't preclude some obscure bug interacting with particular setups, but I think it's more likely that the host could fix it.
If theres a bug in WordPress, Your host most definitely hasn't filed a ticket about it.
A few questions: