All directories should be 755 or 750. All files should be 644 or 640. Exception: wp-config.php should be 440 or 400 to prevent other users on the server from reading it. No directories should ever be given 777, even upload directories. Since the PHP process is running as the owner of the files, it gets … Read more
I think your method will work because if you make a POST (even with GET) request using Postman or Insomnia the API URL to check the WP version still works. It returns the required data to update WP. But I would add more validations to avoid errors with another HTTP requests: add_filter( ‘http_request_args’, ‘stop_sending_wp_data’, 10, … Read more
For both your curl examples, the error is that your target is http: and not https: Either add https to the address, or use curl http://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-5.6-new-bundled.zip -L -L will follow redirects
Fast and easy solution would be to update manually. Download the wordpress package from wordpress.org and unpack to your server. https://wordpress.org/support/article/updating-wordpress/#manual-update
Have a look at what point in your code you’re making calls to the WordPress REST API or any other code which makes use of WP_Site_Health. If you’re making calls in your <theme>/functions.php file, for example, it won’t work because functions.php is included before class WP_Site_Health in wp-settings.php. See wp-settings.php code (WordPress 5.7.2): // Load … Read more
What file(s) in core control automatic background updates?
Automatic updates and merging manual changes
There is no general solution to this problem. Your solution will be specific to your situation, and unusable for many other users, and vice versa. All with their own varying tradeoffs. For example, some hosting companies spin up new instances with the new update, that then replace the old instances, but this is not possible … Read more
The user your server is running as needs to be able to write and modify the files in WordPress core. Namely that the updater was told: Permission denied when it tried to change wp-admin/includes/update-core.php. What the permissions will need to be for this to work are different from server to server. This article talks more … Read more
Well apparently WP CLI was run as root by someone else and caused all the permissions to be overwritten. Normally WP CLI does not run as root automatically. Dreamhost has acknowledged this and restored permissions so I can update things again.