Title: Automatic update doesn’t work…
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Automatic update doesn’t work…

 *  [levani01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/levani01/)
 * (@levani01)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-doesnt-work/)
 * When I try to update plugins or wordpress itself it asks me to enter ftp information
   first… I have a VPS hosting and what settings should I change to make automatic
   update work?
 * Thanks

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-doesnt-work/#post-1403829)
 * That’s the way some hosting situations work–so file in the FTP information to
   complete the update.
 * You could put these constants in your `wp-config.php` file so you don’t have 
   to reenter them each upgrade:
 *     ```
       define('FTP_HOST', 'yourftphost.com');
       define('FTP_USER', 'ftp user here');
       define('FTP_PASS', 'ftp password here');
       ```
   
 * and some other constants that might be useful:
 *     ```
       define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');
       define('FS_TIMEOUT', 900);
       ```
   
 * See [Editing wp-config.php](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php)
 * Also look at the Core Control Plugin to ‘manage’ your transports.

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