WordPress on Windows – Automatic Upgrading
Posted in Technology on August 23rd, 2010 by Tom – Be the first to commentI have never been able to get WordPress to automatically upgrade until today. Every time I tried it would ask for FTP credentials which no matter how I set up FTP it would always fail. I have tried this numerous times through the past year or two and finally I randomly found the solution via Google.
First the platform. Windows 2008 R2 Server running IIS.
Second the problem. Automatic Upgrade would prompt for FTP details, and even if FTP was setup for correct access to WordPress directories would still fail.
Third the root cause. WordPress directories had incorrect file permissions for the IIS to be able to access everything.
Finally the solution. I had incorrectly added the group IIS_IUSRS to have full permissions. What you need to do is add the user IUSR to have full permissions to the wordpress folders. As soon as I did that all the automagic worked like a charm.
I found the solution here.