

Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP:EA, MCDBA, MCSA Possibly because you're lookin' up the wrong tree for the answer. I have been searching the internet for an answer to this but so far drawn a blank. But then, as noted, this is not the Update Service causing this scenario, but rather the Windows Installer. Is there any way of steering the Update service to restrict itself to local drives or even better to specify an exact path for the temporary download folder. As Robear notes, it's really beyond the scope of this forum. However, your issue here is with the Windows Installer application, and using the appropriate options (where available) to control the location of the installation directory on such systems when performing such installations is the solution. This may be OK for the average PC but is not good practise on servers where the drive with the most free space may be on a SAN or on a non-NTFS formatted drive.Ĭorrect, for use of Windows Installer this may not be desirable behavior. Windows Installer does create a temporary folder on the logical volume with the most free space, during the actual installation process, but that folder is be deleted after use. If you're downloading from the Microsoft Download Center, IE may be writing the temporary file into the cache before copying to the final destination. The Windows Update Agent downloads ALL content to %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\Download. If you need help creating the temp directory, setting file permissions, or updating your wp-config.php file, please contact your web host.Windows Update (and for all I know other MS Update services) appears todownload to a temporary folder in the root of the drive with the most free space at the time of the download. You can read more on the WordPress Codex about Changing File Permissions. Tell WordPress to use your custom temp directory by adding the following to wp-config.php:ĭefine('WP_TEMP_DIR','/home/username/www/wp-content/temp').Give that custom temp directory permission for WordPress to write to (e.g., 755 or 777).Create a custom temp directory, for example wp-content/temp/.Creating and defining a custom WordPress temp directory PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Unable to obtain an exclusive lock.' in /var/To fix this, you can define a custom temp directory specifically for WordPress and then give that custom temp directory write permissions (e.g., 755 or 777). PHP Warning: fopen(/tmp/comet-cache-54843.lock): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/on line 1938 If your web host prevents WordPress from opening files in /tmp/ (a common default temp directory for PHP), then you may receive an error like the following:
