[Resolved] Failed to update to 1.5

[Coen]

Hi Wizzards,

I wanted to update to 1.5 and then I got an “Unauthorized” message because indeed the URL has changed since the license key was activated. So as per instructions I deactivated the key and activated it again. And then when I wanted to upgrade the plugin

— BOOM

I cannot acces my site anymore.

I get a big connection error screen:

This site can’t be reached
landcruisingadventure.com refused to connect.

Questions:

– How can this happen?
– What can I do to solve it?
– How can I prevent it from happening again?

—C

[Tom]

Hi there,

So this happened once you initiated the update again, once you had re-saved your license key?

I was able to access your site – is it only the backend that’s down?

[Coen]

Hi Tom,

I just went in via FTP and deactivated the GP-Premium.

So I can go in as well… just now..

What is my following action?

[Tom]

What happens when you re-activate GP Premium?

[Coen]

Okay… Just went ahead an activated the plugin again and updated successfully to 1.5

Pfew…

I don’t like these kind of things! 🙁
—C

[Tom]

Very strange, hopefully just a random one off thing.

Let me know if you run into any other issues 🙂

[Coen]

Will do. Great work!

[John]

I am sorry to have to ask for help updating from GP Premium 1.4.3 to the latest version.
(How is everyone else able to make this work? What am I missing? How can I have survived this long if I am that much less capable then everyone else?)
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All attempts at updating produce the error message: “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.”
The site is unavailable until I delete “.maintance” from the root directory.
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On my plugins page, under GP Premium, the update link is
http://localhost/gp3/wp-admin/update.php?action=upgrade-plugin&plugin=gp-premium%2Fgp-premium.php&_wpnonce=afb45919dc
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I am running the site under localhost, Windows 7 64 bit Premium Service Pack 1, MySQL 5.7, Apache 2.4, WordPress 4.8.3
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Below are details:
I tried to update from version 1.4.3 to newest version. The error message: “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.”
I signed out of my site
I remove “.maintance” from the site’s root directory.
I logged on to my site.
I tried again to update from version 1.4.3 to newest version. The same error message appeared.
So I again Logged off > removed “.maintance” > Logged on.
On the 3rd try the GP Premium plugin again did not update. The error message, under “GP Premium” on the plugin page, was: “Update Failed: Connection lost or the server is busy. Please try again later.”
I logged out > logged in > “Briefly unavailable…” > Logged out > removed “.maintance” > Logged in.
I read November 8, 2017 at 4:57 pm #418990, Coen: (deactivate and then reactivate).
So this time I tried deactivating GP Premium 1.4.3 and then activating it.
Attempted to up date > Failed again “Update Failed: Connection lost or the server is busy. Please try again later.”
I would greatly appreciate help.
NOTE: Does WordPress think it is cute to display the mocking error message “Briefly unavailable…” when in the real world the site will never be available until repaired?

[Tom]

Interesting, it could be because you’re running WordPress on Windows 7. Perhaps the plugin mentioned here will help?: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/updating-issues/#could-not-copy-file

[john770]

John,
Another idea, since you don’t mention that point:
Did you flush your browser cache, or, if so but without effect, any plugin cache in use?

[John]

I am grateful for the suggestions. Thanks for telling me about the Windows Compatibility Fix plugin. Thanks for the reminder about flushing the browser cache. I did flush the browser cache.
I used pale moon 25.7.1 for the first tries. I next tried FireFox 56.0 and had the same failure. (I use Linux Mint 18.2 (Ubuntu 16.04) usually. My wife wants me to build a site she can pretty much manage on her own, under Windows 10.)
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What worked for me was to uninstall GP Premium 1.4.1, log out of the WordPress site, log back into the WordPress site, THEN install GP Premium 1.5.1 as a new plugin, AND go back to the all plugins page to activate GP Premium 1.5.1.
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Details:
To update GP Premium from 1.4.1 to 1.5.1
Deactivate, then delete GP Premium 1.4.1.
Log out of WordPress site.
Log in to WordPress site.
Install GP Premium as a new plugin, but do NOT activate from the new plugin page.
Go to all plugins page.
Activate GP Press 1.5.1 from all plugins page.
NOTE:
I tried deleting GP Premium 1.4.1, and then installing new plugin GP Premium 1.5.1, without logging out. But when I did that the all plugin page showed GP Premium was version 1.4.1 and had a message to “update to GP Premium 1.5.1.” Something was wrong, but I had wasted too much time getting the update to work so I just did as described under “Details” and did not investigate further.
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I have the Elementor Pro 1.9.5 plugin installed. Elementor has previously caused problems and I would have next tried uninstalling Elementor and Elementor Pro then doing the GP Premium 1.5.1 update. But when I got to something that worked, I stopped.

[Tom]

Very strange – thanks for posting what worked for you. Looks like you just had to manually update – possibly due to being on Windows 7.

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