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Unable to upgrade from 5.5.11 to 5.6.1: "Download Failed. Service Unavailable"
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Stephen
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Jan 21, 2016 - 9:58 am
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The 'ss' version was during our site rebuild which as completed early July. It was soon after this that we were unable to complete the upgrade of Simple Press Forum. My designer, who has been helping me figure this out (and posting this) says that they just copied and pasted everything from one to the other so nothing should have happened on our end.

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 21, 2016 - 12:10 pm
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Curious.... the 'ss.' prefixed url appears repeatedly in these logs taken a day or so ago, Not that I think that this is the cause of your problem but if they have no relevance it would be nice to eradicate the calls.

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Mr Papa
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Jan 22, 2016 - 12:17 am
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unless the xml was from non ss and the download was from ss... that is, switch in middle... didnt seet hat in logs, but the ss was much more predominant...

didnt believe it was related to php version but about out of ideas so it was straw grasp...

so when yours failed with 503, there was dozens of success in the immediate area...  just not sure why the 503...

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Jan 22, 2016 - 10:12 am
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I was testing the updates from the "ss" site while making changes. I didn't want to break the live site.

I just tried updating (within 5 minutes of this post) the Forum plugin and all the plugins. I get the same response every single time.

The update process is starting. This process may take a while on some hosts, so please be patient.

Updating Plugin Admin Bar (1/5)

An error occurred while updating Admin Bar: Download failed. Service Unavailable

Updating Plugin Editor TinyMCE Rich Text (2/5)

An error occurred while updating Editor TinyMCE Rich Text: Download failed. Service Unavailable

Updating Plugin File Uploader with Plupload (3/5)

An error occurred while updating File Uploader with Plupload: Download failed. Service Unavailable

Updating Plugin Subscriptions (4/5)

An error occurred while updating Subscriptions: Download failed. Service Unavailable

Updating Plugin Watches (5/5)

An error occurred while updating Watches: Download failed. Service Unavailable

All updates have been completed.

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Jan 22, 2016 - 12:49 pm
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We are not doubting your failures! We have had our own hosting company looking into it as well as spending much time trawling logs and settings. The simple truth is that we do handle hundreds of these requests every day and these failures are very rare.

There are still diagnostics and research going on but I am not feeling too confident that we are going to find any trouble our end. And that, of course is partly because of what I just said... the rarity of such failures.

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Stephen
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Jan 31, 2016 - 9:00 pm
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Is there any update on this? Thank you.

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Mr Papa
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Jan 31, 2016 - 10:45 pm
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afraid not... have found nothing wrong on the server... and especially with the release of 5.6.3 and a couple dozen plugin updates, we have gotten many, many updates...

we continue to look at it...  and we even made a couple of real minor tweaks to reduce load on the api site to make sure its not getting overloaded... but would have to have 5.6.3 (as would other users) to make any difference...

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Feb 1, 2016 - 7:44 am
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So is there anything else my developer can check on our end here? It's odd that it happened with a site rebuild but they see nothing wrong or changed so I don't know what to do next. I can update manually to 5.6.3 I guess if I need to go that route.

Thanks.

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Feb 1, 2016 - 8:41 am
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I honestly can not suggest anything to try your end although I will leave it to Mr Papa to comment if he can think of anything. But I believe from what he has said this end we do not have anything else we can check as far as we know. Downloads, updates and access to our control files seem to be going very smoothly I am afraid.

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Mr Papa
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Feb 1, 2016 - 8:59 pm
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We continue to look at it... I perused the logs this weekend for more hints and data with the release but going very smoothly.

Of course, not denying your issue...it's just a one off...and frankly we are developers not server admits.  So if your developers have any thoughts we are happy to hear them.

Long thread, but did you provide your server IP (not your ISP IP) so we can verify it's not blocked?

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