Title: "try again" msg while uploading theme or plugin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# "try again" msg while uploading theme or plugin

 *  Resolved [Alain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alainroger/)
 * (@alainroger)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/)
 * Hi,
 * i have a strange behavior under my fresh installation of WP 3.9.
    when i want
   to upload from drive a plugin/theme, i got the following error message: “Are 
   you sure you want to do this? try again”.
 * i checked my php.ini file and upload file limit is 20MB while my theme or plugin
   are not more than 10.2MB (theme), 2.7MB (plugin).
 * i have no other plugin or theme than the default ones from a fresh WP 3.9 installation.
 * i found on [https://optimizepress.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200657358-Are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-this-Plugin-Upload-Install-Error](https://optimizepress.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200657358-Are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-this-Plugin-Upload-Install-Error)
   that i should write in wp-config.inc file:
    define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘128M’);
 * but it did not help.
 * what is very weird, it’s that if i upload the same plugin from web directly, 
   it works great and i can install it.
 * So where is the problem ?
    thx

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861612)
 * > “Are you sure you want to do this? try again”
 * That’s usually symptomatic of a bad theme or plugin. Can you replicate the problem
   using the default Twenty Fourteen theme with **all** plugins deactivated?
 *  Thread Starter [Alain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alainroger/)
 * (@alainroger)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861617)
 * So in this case why the same ZIP file (woocommerce 2.1.7) works from direct web
   uploading while doesn’t work from drive file upload ?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861625)
 * Did you try my suggestion above?
 *  Thread Starter [Alain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alainroger/)
 * (@alainroger)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861628)
 * yes for sure. anyway i have no activated plugin and the default theme is the 
   twenty fourteen. i have the same result.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861631)
 * Try re-uploading all files & folders – **except** the root wp-config.php & .htaccess
   files and the wp-content folder – from a **fresh** download of WordPress. Make
   sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new
   ones.
 *  Thread Starter [Alain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alainroger/)
 * (@alainroger)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861644)
 * by default there is no .htaccess in the default 3.9 zip file
 *  Thread Starter [Alain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alainroger/)
 * (@alainroger)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861647)
 * same result when i do like you suggested 🙁
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861660)
 * > by default there is no .htaccess in the default 3.9 zip file
 * Yes – I am aware of that but an .htaccess file is created in root if you set 
   up custom permalinks.
 * Try adding `define('SCRIPT_DEBUG', true);`to the bottom of your wp-config.php
   file (just before the `require_once` line).
 *  Thread Starter [Alain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alainroger/)
 * (@alainroger)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861670)
 * nothing change even with the debugging script set to true.
    even worse…no particular
   message…
 * i tested it on WP 3.8.3 i have the same behavior…
    i don’t know why but i have
   the feeling it has something to do with file size during uploading… from directory
 * because if i upload a plugin like backupwordpress 2.6.1, everything goes well
   even from drive uploading. 🙁
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861677)
 * > i don’t know why but i have the feeling it has something to do with file size
   > during uploading
 * What makes you think that? This kind of message is often associated with an issue
   relating to the WP Settings API where a theme or plugin is not presenting the
   correct security credentials.
 *  Thread Starter [Alain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alainroger/)
 * (@alainroger)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861680)
 * in this case it would mean that WooCommerce 2.1.7 and the theme i want to upload
   have both this issue 🙁
 * In this case, why the define(‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true); does not display any error
   or waning message in verbose mode ?
 * it would help me to do a good diagnose
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861681)
 * I thought you didn’t have any active plugins?!
 *  Thread Starter [Alain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alainroger/)
 * (@alainroger)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861684)
 * i do not have an activated plugin at all, but i was just saying that this issue
   appears when i try to upload from drive a plugin or a theme.
 *  Thread Starter [Alain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alainroger/)
 * (@alainroger)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861706)
 * by the way if WP had a security issue with those plugin/theme…why uploading the
   WooCommerce 2.1.7 plugin directly from internet, works without any issue ?
 * from my point of view issue is in WP for file uploading directly from drive.
 *  Thread Starter [Alain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alainroger/)
 * (@alainroger)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/try-again-msg-while-uploading-theme-or-plugin/#post-4861933)
 * ok i finally found where was the issue.
    in fact i had 2 parameters to change
   in my php.ini file.
 * 1. the max size of PHP usage to 400 MB
    2. the max time of execution to 90s
 * now i do not have any more this message.

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