Roughly 2 hours ago the WordPress manager function in the Softaculous is down. Users may see something like “WORDPRESS PACKAGE not found” / “info.xml not found”, etc.
All other scripts can still be installed via Softaculous. If you need WordPress, you’ll have to install it manually from WordPress.org .
It’s not scary and we have a relevant guide of MySQL on this:
Both the popular PDO and MySQLi libraries are available on all accounts and PHP versions, which are the libraries all (modern) scripts use to connect to a MySQL database. However, to use a database, you need to configure a few things first.
Before you can use a database, you need to create the database first. You can create a database through your control panel in the section called MySQL Databases. Simply enter a desired name in the text box and click Create Database.
To use the database with…
If you usually access wp-admin from there, please follow this guide to change your password from the DB: (So that you no longer need Softaculous)
In WordPress, there is more than one way to reset your password. (Normally, the easiest way to reset it is through the “Lost your password?” link on the main login page for your blog or website.) However, there are certain times (especially if your...
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March 2, 2024, 10:37am
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Thanks for the useful information.
In the mean time, I created an outage announcement about it:
Softaculous WordPress: The INFO.XML file could not be found
Since some time this morning, it’s not possible to install or manage WordPress through Softaculous.
Which components are affected by this issue
The WordPress package in Softaculous. Other scripts in Softaculous may be affected too, but so far we have only received reports about WordPress.
What issues may you see
When trying to view or install WordPress in Softaculous, you may see the error:
The INFO.XML file could not be found! Plea…
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March 9, 2024, 10:37am
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