there must be a plugin for this, anyone know if it exists? (auto-update)

[mark0v]

I ran into some problems upgrading my wordpress installs from 3.1 to 3.1.3

Long story short, I used SSH to log into my server.
I used wget to pull the new .zip from wordpress to my server
I unzipped that file
I used the cp command to copy those files over the existing files.

Is there a plugin which will do the same as I've just described above? I'm fairly certain that it could be accomplished by using the exec command within php. I'd much rather have a web interface that I could click on rather than rely upon typing everything out in an SSH session for each and every site everytime wordpress needs updated.

 

[aReJay]

Ok....

Couple of points

1) Your post title seems to assume that this is a WordPress forum... while every n00b brings their WordPress/adsense woes here, doesn't make it an WP forum - take that shit to DP or WF

2) You're making WP upgrades WAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY....... to complex

Unless your updating daily using the SVN or using a centralised core system outside the normal http root to drive a number of WP installations there is no need to make updating WP so damn difficult - that shit was designed so even the most useless people could keep up to date with that shit.

</rant>

Login to WordPress -> Click Big F*ck Off Update Button -> Press Ok

Sheaaat... you just updated Wordpress.

DONE!!!!
-aReJay

 

[mark0v]

Login to WordPress -> Click Big F*ck Off Update Button -> Press Ok

Sheaaat... you just updated Wordpress.

DONE!!!!
-aReJay

Thanks for the explanation, but I'm not quite at that level of uselessness What you suggested does not work on all systems, mine included. Regarding your rant, read the forum description.

If I use the update button, it will just throw errors. Wordpress addresses this situation by suggesting something much more complex and time consuming than what I've described: http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update (look up the manual update)

Anyway, if anyone is familiar with this situation, I'd appreciate some input.

update:
Apparently the reason I've been experiencing problems is that wordpress won't update unless its files are owned by the same user which Apache runs as, which is "nobody". When I set up a wordpress install with fantastico, the files are owned by the account username, not "nobody". So in order to fix this, apparently I either need to login via SSH to each installation and chown all wordpress files to "nobody" which could have security implications, or else use the process I described above.