Background:
I am volunteering to create a website for a non-profit, their tech guys have chosen for the host - GoDaddy. The tech guys used Installatron to create the ClassicPress install that I am supposed to use.
Installatron does not have Version 1.3 as a choice on install just 1.2(recommended) and lower.
My dev site that I am attempting to migrate is Version 1.3, (not because I wanted it to be, but because ClassicPress updates automagically.)
Expected behavior
ClassicPress dashboard should be nagging me to update to 1.3
Current behavior
Not only is it not nagging but the update checker says:
" Unable to determine whether a ClassicPress update is available.
You may be running a customized build of ClassicPress, or your server may be having internet connectivity problems."
So I have no option to update to 1.3
Context - My questions or comments
I am letting the community know what is going on at Installatron or possibly GoDaddy?
Does Installatron create a customized build, I donât think I want that?
To manually update to Version 1.3 - overwrite all of wp-includes? this is so WP1.0, I have forgotten
We need to check with Installatron to see if they need to update CP manually on their end. They might not know about our latest.zip URL.
As for updating CP. Once CP 1.2 is installed, regular updates should kick in and you should be able to upgrade to the latest version 1.3 from the dashboard. Are you not able to do so?
Weâll be shipping our part of this fix in ClassicPress v1.3.1, but the other part has to be done by your web host: GoDaddy needs to upgrade the version of cURL that is used by your PHP installation, and/or remove the expired âDST Root CA X3â certificate from your web server.
As you can see by the screenshot, I tried disabling certificate verification and checked on the âupdatesâ page, it did not change the behavior of the âCheck for Updatesâ button or the nag.
Based on that output, the plugin should work for you. Click the button to disable certificate verification, then immediately go to Dashboard > Updates and click Check Again. Be sure to do that and apply the update before the 3 minutes elapse.
This is a temporary solution - you will also need to get your web host to fix your server configuration.
I did it twice, it doesnât seem to work in this case.
I remembered that AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED was set to âtrueâ in config. I changed it to âfalseâ and tried the process again it still doesnât work, but maybe this tells us that they do have a custom build?:
/**
Turn off automatic updates since these are managed externally by Installatron.
If you remove this define() to re-enable ClassicPressâs automatic background updating
then itâs advised to disable auto-updating in Installatron.
*/
define(âAUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLEDâ, false);
Once that is open, you can go to âTools > Switch to ClassicPressâ, use the âShow advanced controlsâ section, and paste the URL to the latest version of ClassicPress (https://www.classicpress.net/latest.zip) in the text field.
You may need to chain this together with the previous plugin that will enable insecure requests for a few minutes first.
