Title: FTP Credentials
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# FTP Credentials

 *  [wyx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wyx/)
 * (@wyx)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-credentials-7/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisl_57/)
 * (@chrisl_57)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-credentials-7/#post-6430614)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wyx/)
 * (@wyx)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-credentials-7/#post-6430617)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wyx/)
 * (@wyx)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-credentials-7/#post-6430628)
 * 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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 * [credentials](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/credentials/)
 * [ftp](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ftp/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [wyx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wyx/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-credentials-7/#post-6430628)
 * Status: not resolved

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