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Dans Macabre
Apr 24, 2004


Hey there.... I'm running out of ideas so I'm hoping it's OK to resurrect this thread for tech support needs. I am in charge of a debian server that serves a wordpress website. I think for as long as WP has been on this server (which is a few months), it has not been able to auto update or update plugins via wp-admin. When I try to update any of the things, it asks me for FTP information.

I got FTP set up, and I'm pretty sure set the user permissions to read/write the wordpress directory, but I'm still getting errors saying "cannot find wp-content" and depending on what I change it says can't connect at all, even though I can connect with an FTP client just fine.

All the stack overflows I've found about this say it has to do with permission issues to the WordPress folder but I just can't seem to get it right.

Has anyone dealt with this before?


Update: turns out I'm a dinosaur, added
php:
<?
define('FS_METHOD','direct');?>
to wp-config and now everything is correctly updating

Dans Macabre fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Jul 7, 2023

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