Title: Catch 22 Cannot Install Plugin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Catch 22 Cannot Install Plugin

 *  [Fox Emerson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/belfusion/)
 * (@belfusion)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/catch-22-cannot-install-plugin/)
 * So the reason I got this plugin is to get around the whole “My web host owns 
   Apache” So therefore I cannot update anything from WordPress.
 * And when I run it, of course, I cannot run it because I don’t have permissions
   to write to the directory.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ftp-access/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ftp-access/)

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 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [Fox Emerson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/belfusion/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/catch-22-cannot-install-plugin/)
 * Status: not resolved