edwardm1

Two blogs on one server updated automatically.

Five blogs on another server failed to update automatically. Selecting the Update Now option results in this error message

Downloading update from https://downloads.wp.xz.cn/release/wordpress-5.3-new-bundled.zip…

Download failed.: cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 4652651 out of 13259832 bytes received

Installation Failed

Have tried doing this several times since 5.3 came out with this error or the update just hung and the .maintenance file was left in place.

There do appear to be odd update failure problems with WP 5.3 – or that error messages are not helpful to resolving the problem.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by edwardm1.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by edwardm1.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by edwardm1.

No, I am not using the default theme. And I am not the only person experiencing this problem. I explained in a post, above, the use of an add-on subdomain at the ISP. However, I am accessing this blog without going through the add-on subdomain.

I now see an additional defect introduced with the WP 5.0 upgrade.

My blog was set to use the Day and Name permalink format. After upgrading to WP 5.0, the upgrade defaulted to the /?p=nnnn format.

I reselected the Day and Name format but when I click on a link – which WP is generating to the Day and Name format – the page is not found. All links on the blog are now broken.

I have tried other themes but have the same problems with those themes too.

Wordpress 5.0 has completely broken this web site.

Example:

Not Found

The requested URL /2016/03/22/denmark-fairy-tales was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by edwardm1.

Possible clues. Of the 5 blogs I have updated:

Two are on the root domain (e.g. example.com) – these work fine.

Three are on subdomains (e.g. foo.example.com). Two of these three work fine, but one does not.

The one that does not work – let’s say xyz.example.com – is accessed via xyz.example.com/wp-admin to login. Everything seems to work EXCEPT cannot update or post new content.

This subdomain (and only this subdomain) is accessible via an “add on domain” such that the URL (let’s say) newexample.com goes to xyz.example.com

I use a .htaccess file rule to map http to https as follows

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPres

The rewrite rule I did myself – I do not remember if the other part labeled #BEGIN WordPress was already there before I started as this was done quite some time ago.

I deleted the WP section from .htaccess and there is no change in the WP behavior.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by edwardm1.