Connection Information – FTP credentials

matthewjashman
(@matthewjashman)

8 years, 2 months ago

Hello,

In an earlier post, I discussed how I was unable to connect my wordpress site to my local server – xaamp. I uninstalled, and installed again – in an effort to redress the issue of: being able to download and activate themes, plugins, and media (without having to do it manually) through the wordpress site itself; also, I’m not able to delete pre-existing themes. I’m new to WP, and doing so manually is quite difficult.

I get the error message of: There was an error connecting to the server, Please verify the settings are correct.

Hostname: localhost/wordpress
FTP Username: “it’s correct”
FTP Password: “it’s correct”

connection type
FTP

Help?

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dimitris33
(@dimitris33)

8 years, 2 months ago

Hello,

you can check this thread for a solution

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-asking-for-my-ftp-credentials-to-install-plugins?replies=19

Thread Starter matthewjashman
(@matthewjashman)

8 years, 2 months ago

Hello Dimitris33,

I have attempted some of the so called “solutions” provided in that thread, unfortunately, no luck as of yet. Perhaps you know of a solution, or the issue causing the problem?
dimitris33
(@dimitris33)

8 years, 2 months ago
did you try this ?
```
WordPress asks for your FTP credentials when it can't access the files directly. This is usually caused by PHP running as the apache user (mod_php or CGI) rather than the user that owns your WordPress files.

As a workaround you can put your FTP credentials directly in wp-config.php

define( 'FTP_USER', 'username' );
define( 'FTP_PASS', 'password' );
define( 'FTP_HOST', 'ftp.example.org:21' );
```
in your wp-config.php ?
Satalink
(@satalink)

7 years, 6 months ago
This happens to me when the files/dirs in wp-content are not owned by the web user.
```
cd public_html/
chown username.username * -R
```
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timcfla
(@timcfla)

7 years, 4 months ago

On my site, under advance featues, in the control panel it has an option to “lockdown” wordpress, you cannot do updates while in lockdown mode.
I have mine on auto lockdown so that when I turn off lockdown, lockdown mode re-enables after a pre-determined time.
hope this helps someone.