Install Themes – FTP Connection Error

Try using “localhost” or “127.0.0.1” as the hostname, see if that helps, sometimes due to poor server configuration, the web server can’t resolve the http://ftp.myserver.com name correctly.

Theres a few other possibilities.. The next one to try would be to prevent WordPress using the PHP FTP Extension if it’s loaded, and instead, use an alternate library.

Open your wp-config.php file, and add this before the stop editing comment:
define('FS_METHOD', 'ftpsockets');
That’ll force WordPress into using a PHP library instead of the extension.

See if that one works, if not, there’s another idea up my sleeve, but i’d prefer you try that one first 🙂

(Also, I assume this is a shared host, and not a VPS or Dedicated server?)

> SAFE MODE Restriction in effect.

Thats annoying, It means you’ve got a bad Server configuration.

A few options:

• You can Chmod wp-content to 777 (or maybe 775) – Not recomended really
• You could direct the temporary files to the Uploads folder: define('WP_TEMP_DIR', '/home/me/domains/mysite/public_html/dir/wp-content/uploads/'); – Assuming you’ve chmod’d your uploads folder already, Not really recommended either, although it’s one less folder to have world writable
• You could create a folder in wp-content, set it world writable, and set WP_TEMP_DIR to that.

Where you refer to .. is that within the wp-cofig.php file?

Yep, same place as the FS_METHOD define.