I can install plugins via SFTP client but not via WP admin

  • Resolved moose1

    (@moose1)


    4 years, 3 months ago

    Running multisite on 5.3.2

    I can upload plugin files with an SFTP client and then activate them in admin just fine, but if I try to install a plugin as a super admin using the backend “Add New” plugin page, I just get “Installation failed: Could not create directory”. This is running on Linux with SE Linux enabled and even disabling that hasn’t worked.

    When I change FS_method to “ssh2” I get “The ssh2 PHP extension is not available.” I’ve also tried all sorts of permissions on /plugins/ and /uploads/, nothing seems to work.

    Anyone else encounter this?

    Thanks.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by moose1.
    • This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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