Installing WordPress in WP Toolkit in Plesk fails: Unable to download the WordPress package from https://wordpress.org/

Symptoms

• Installing WordPress in WP Toolkit in Plesk fails:

  Unable to download the WordPress 6.5.2 package from https://wordpress.org/. Please try again later or contact the server administrator.

• Downloading the WordPress manually in CLI as below also fails:

  # wget https://wordpress.org/wordpress-6.5.2.tar.gz

  Resolving wordpress.org (wordpress.org)... 198.143.164.252
  Connecting to wordpress.org (wordpress.org)|198.143.164.252|:443... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 429 Too Many Requests
  ERROR 429: Too Many Requests.

Cause

Unclear.

Resolution

1. Connect to the server using SSH.

2. Download the latest version of WordPress to the WP Toolkit directory:

   # wget -O /usr/local/psa/var/modules/wp-toolkit/packages/wordpress-6.5.2.zip https://wordpress.org/latest.zip

   If the directory does not exist, create it:

   # mkdir /usr/local/psa/var/modules/wp-toolkit/packages && chown psaadm:psaadm /usr/local/psa/var/modules/wp-toolkit/packages && chmod 755 /usr/local/psa/var/modules/wp-toolkit/packages

3. Install the latest WordPress version in WP Toolkit in Plesk.