23 October 2023 | General

WordPress Update failed. Download failed. cURL error 77

If you have a WordPress website and come to carry out plugin maintenance and find you cannot update plugins with the error message “Update failed: Download failed. cURL error 77:” then the chances are you need to fix a PLESK modification.

Resolution

Connect to the server via SSH.

Restart all the PHP services including Plesk:

systemctl restart plesk-php* && systemctl restart sw-engine

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