Title: update error fail
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# update error fail

 *  [crienoloog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crienoloog/)
 * (@crienoloog)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-error-fail/)
 * Nothing serious so far…
    All other updates of sites and multi-sites at other 
   hosting co. worked fine… But with my own site hosted with ISP on Windows server
   I get this error trying to update my multi-site from 3.3 to 3.4
 * > Warning: copy(D:/www/domainname/www/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php): failed
   > to open stream: Permission denied in D:\www\domainname\www\wp-admin\includes\
   > class-wp-filesystem-direct.php on line 200
   >  Could not copy files. Installation
   > Failed
 * I assume it might have something to do with chmod certain folders, but I am not
   sure…
    Thanks for helping.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-error-fail/#post-2816068)
 * It’s either a permissions or an ownership issue. Unfortunately, you just got 
   the short straw as Windows servers are not my area of expertise (I normally avoid
   them like the plague). The quickest solution would be for you to carry out a 
   [manual upgrade](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress). Failing that,
   have a word with your hosts about it.
 *  Thread Starter [crienoloog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crienoloog/)
 * (@crienoloog)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-error-fail/#post-2816081)
 * Hi esmi,
    Thanks for the quick reply, really appreciated. Yes I thought something
   like this… Because it is a multi-site I am kind of worried to do a manual upgrade.
   Maybe some other helpers might have some idea? But I will try from this side 
   too. Thanks again.
 * Grtz.
    Eric
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-error-fail/#post-2816084)
 * A manual upgrade should be no different in a multisite install.
 *  Thread Starter [crienoloog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crienoloog/)
 * (@crienoloog)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-error-fail/#post-2816110)
 * I’ll start reading then, Thanks.

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 * [installation fail](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation-fail/)
 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)
 * [permission denied](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permission-denied/)

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 * Last reply from: [crienoloog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crienoloog/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-error-fail/#post-2816110)
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