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So, I'm trying to upgrade my woefully outdated site (4.1.11), but the FTP system is giving me a hard time for some reason.

I can log on with FileZilla using sftp (turning off keys and accepting passwords for ssh), but when I plot in the same info in the update process, it says nope.

Any suggestions?

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Hm, perhaps your SSH config only allows one connection per login at once? Try disconnecting and closing FileZilla before getting on.

You can actually avoid FTP/SFTP all together if PHP has write access to your entire suite - the upgrader will download, extract, and redirect you to the main upgrader for you without inputting any server credentials. I found that on my Debian server (I'm sure this is also true of an Ubuntu server) that this required changing file/folder ownership to www-data (e.g. "sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/site.com/"). Of course, always make a backup before upgrading. I'm not sure if you have access to this (you would if you have a VPS or a dedicated server), but I thought I'd mention this solution. I find that this method is a lot quicker and I don't have to give up my SSH information.

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Hi MDPP - thank you for the answer :-)

I had already logged off any other connections to my server, so that can't be it.

I'm not quite sure what you're saying about the upgrader working without server credentials, but I really don't mind IPS having SSH information - I would only activate them (keys, ports or passwords) while upgrading.

As it stands now, I'm unable to use the one-click upgrade of my board. I'll live - I just like it when all my stuff works.

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On 9/28/2016 at 5:59 AM, Eupolemos said:

Hi MDPP - thank you for the answer :-)

I had already logged off any other connections to my server, so that can't be it.

I'm not quite sure what you're saying about the upgrader working without server credentials, but I really don't mind IPS having SSH information - I would only activate them (keys, ports or passwords) while upgrading.

As it stands now, I'm unable to use the one-click upgrade of my board. I'll live - I just like it when all my stuff works.

Same boat here too, let me know if you find a solution.

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