Title: Automatic Updates not Working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Automatic Updates not Working

 *  Resolved [Dan Paquette](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitalicious/)
 * (@digitalicious)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-updates-not-working/)
 * Trying to update from WordPress 3.0 to 3.0.1. I’d like to get automatic updates
   working as I’m passing off this project to a client.
 * It asks me for the connection information, I enter it, and it gets to “Unpacking
   the update…” and stalls, unpacking indefinitely. I’ve let it go for some time
   now, but it hasn’t budged.
 * The codex states:
 * > “Note that your files all need to be owned by the user under which your Apache
   > server executes, or you will receive a dialog box asking for ‘connection information,’
   > and you will find that no matter what you enter, it won’t work.”
   >  — **[WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress)**
 * But it’s vague. Won’t work, meaning I get a warning, or not? Is this something
   I can setup on my side through my control panel (cpanel), or do I have to contact
   my host?
 * **Update:** Updating the theme worked just fine. Took a while, but worked. Still
   can’t update from 3.0 to 3.0.1.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-updates-not-working/#post-1606777)
 * Contact your hosts. The ownership needs to be changed on some of your files/folder.

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## Tags

 * [automatic](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/automatic/)
 * [Updates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/updates/)
 * [updating](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/updating/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-updates-not-working/#post-1606777)
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