October 23rd, 2009
I was having trouble with the uploads folder for Wordpress.
When I was trying this I had the following configuration
- Wordpress 2.8.4
- IIS7
- Windows 2008 Web Edition
- PHP 5.3
When trying to upload a file I was getting the following error :- Incompatible archive: PCLZIP_ERR_READ_OPEN_FAIL (-2) : Unable to read archive ‘C:\Windows\TEMP\/wordpress-2.8.5.zip’
to fix this I added the following permissions.
- c:\windows temp – add IUSR and give modify permissions
- c:\windows temp – add IIS_IUSRS and give modify permissions
I was then getting an error saying it could download the upgrade but did not have permissions to delete the plugin.
- \wp-content\plugins – grant modify permission for the IUSR account.
After doing this the upgrades of plugins worked fine.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Thanks for this. I’ve spent hours trying to figure this out and your post fixed my issue exactly. Thanks!
April 21st, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Wahoo!! at last!! I have been looking for months for a solution to this! thank you for posting it. I have IIS6, but the same principle applies, namely give internet guest account permissions to modify c:\windows\temp.
Cheers
Dean