Wordpress SSH Upgrade Problem

Question

I keep getting the same error, any ideas?

1. I have generated a key without a password using ssh-keygen
2. I set permissions on the keys to 600
3. I have successfully logged in using ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa 1**.**.*8.128
4. I have tried changing hostname to localhost and 127.0.0.1

The server is running CentOS 5.4.

Answer 1

This is likely because your web server is not running as root and therefore doesn't have access to file's in /root/. Run ps on the host and grep for the server process name to see the username. It may well be something like nobody. If that's the case, I would suggest generating a key specifically for use by the web server and then chowning it to the user the server runs as. Hopefully this will solve your problem :)

Answer 2

Here is the full solution, thanks to michaelmior for his help, it got me half way.

1. Run this command to generate keys: ssh-keygen

   You'll get this output:

   Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/user1/.ssh/id_rsa): Created directory ‘/home/user1/.ssh’. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): (just hit enter, no need for a password) Enter same passphrase again: (same thing, hit enter again) Your identification has been saved in /home/user1/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /home/user1/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx [email protected] 

2. Add the public key to your authorized_keys file

3. Move the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub to /usr/local

4. chown the files to the same user as your webserver (in my case apache)

5. chmod the files to 600: chmod 600 id_rsa*

This should now work.

However, my installation kept hanging, a quick look at the httpd error_log file show me:

PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2966269 bytes) in /var/www/sites/.... 

Adding this code to the Wordpress wp-config.php file to temporally increase the amount of memory available:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');