Info for people using ssh and this plugin

Hi all,

There isn’t much about it for SSH, so I thought I’d write a note here for anyone else who has the problem i ran into. The plugin is out of date on wordpress.org, but works fine on 3.9.1

I spent a few hours trying to get my wordpress set up to auto update, but my server uses sftp. I had problems with this, so eventually got it working using ssh.

I installed this plugin by extracting it to my desktop, then copying it via filezilla to the plugins folder, then going into wordpress dashboard and activating the plugin

Then I edited wp-config.php

I added

// ** FTP SETTINGS FOR AUTO-UPDATE ** //
define( ‘FS_METHOD’, ‘ssh2’ );
define( ‘FTP_BASE’, ‘/location/to/root’ );
define( ‘FTP_CONTENT_DIR’, ‘/location/to/root/wp-content’ );
define( ‘FTP_PLUGIN_DIR ‘, ‘/location/to/root/wp-content/plugins’ );
define(‘FTP_HOST’, ‘ipaddress’);
define(‘FTP_USER’, ‘username’);
define(‘FTP_PASS’, ‘password’);
define( ‘FTP_SSL’, true );

I then uploaded it via filezilla, tried updating again through the dashboard and bingo, it works.

Read up on https://www.serverstack.com/blog/2013/02/11/automatic-wordpress-updates-using-ftpftps-or-ssh/ for terminology

Cheers

Jamie

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ssh-sftp-updater-support/