If you are an EasyEngine user and facing a Downloading WordPress [Fail] error when creating a new website, here is the reasoning and a quick fix to solve the issue.
Here is the blog post on the official EasyEngine blog about how to fix it and the causes for it.
While the official post recommends using the nightly build of WP-CLI, I prefer avoiding nightly releases. Just remove the nightly argument from the mentioned command; it will look like the following:
sudo wp –allow-root cli update
This will update WP-CLI to the stable version. The default version of WP-CLI in EasyEngine I was using was 0.24.1; after the update, it is now version 1.4.0.
Hope EE4.0’s upcoming major release will use the latest binaries of its dependencies.
Till then, happy WordPressing 🙂