FTP Credentials

  • wyx

    (@wyx)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hey, I’ve looked everywhere for an answer to this. I have a fresh WordPress install on my own server. It asks for FTP access when attempting to update instead of just doing it. I’ve read that the PHP user might have something to do with it, but I’ve checked and the php user is the same as apache, and I’ve chown’ed -R my entire wordpress directory and any directories that are symlinked. Everything is being handled by www-data, but WordPress is still unable to write to the directories. Any help?

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  • Creatrix

    (@chrisl_57)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    You can define the FTP details in wp-config.php to avoid being asked for them every time when updating/installing.

    Something like the following should work:

    define('FTP_USER', 'username');
define('FTP_PASS', 'password');
define('FTP_HOST', 'host');
    Thread Starter wyx

    (@wyx)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks. I think I have some larger issue though, because I can’t actually do anything but post a new blog entry. Any thing in the settings I try to change leads me to a blank page. Keeps the left admin panel, but content part of the page is blank -_- Time to reinstall I think.

    Thread Starter wyx

    (@wyx)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Yeah, it was just a strange install. I installed using the ubuntu repo when I should have downloaded/extracted manually. All those symlinks and whatever else it installs really caused a bunch of problems when trying to move the default install to a new directory.

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