Hey Tom, I hadn't considered more unusual setups like that when I wrote the wrapper script. The simplest solution is probably to comment out or delete the check for wp-config.php in the wp-update script. It's the third if/fi block. Ideally the script should handle sites that don't follow the basic structure, but that would be quite a lot of extra work. I'll have a think about that for a future version. Hopefully this will let you work around your issue in the meantime. Good luck!

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