Title: installing plugins on localhost
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# installing plugins on localhost

 *  Resolved [johnyc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnyc/)
 * (@johnyc)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-on-localhost/)
 * Hello,
    I’ve downloaded 3.0.1 wordpress and testing it on my LAMP setup ([http://localhost/](http://localhost/))
   localhost. When I tried to install plugins it asks me for ftp access and host
   name.
 * > To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access to your web server.
   > Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials,
   > you should contact your web host.
 * I’m afraid I cannot go to next step because it wouldn’t understand my internal
   ip 192.168.*.*
    Work-around to this problem is you can manually download pluggins
   and extract them to /wp-content/plugins/
 * Once loaded in plugins directory, it lists in WP-admin plugins section. BUT, 
   you cannot activate it. When you click on ‘activate’ a message comes telling 
   that ‘plugin is activated’ but it never get activated.
 * Do you experience the same problem working on localhost?

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 *  Thread Starter [johnyc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnyc/)
 * (@johnyc)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-on-localhost/#post-1718123)
 * Adding a screenshot for better understanding.
    [Check the link to open in new window](http://twitpic.com/2x5zmh)
   Notice the message on the top ‘plugin activated’ and see the details that follows
   NO plugin actually got activated- total inactive plugins 4 in my case.
 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-3085)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-on-localhost/#post-1718183)
 * you could try getting a fresh copy of WordPress in case you have any corrupt 
   files.
 * You may also want to check the file permission on the wp-content, wp-content/
   plugins directories.
 *  [Zambrano Sergio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sergiozambrano/)
 * (@sergiozambrano)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-on-localhost/#post-1718403)
 * Google “permissions” and “localhost”. It was something with wp lacking permissions
   to do it itself.
 *  Thread Starter [johnyc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnyc/)
 * (@johnyc)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-on-localhost/#post-1718443)
 * yes, it was something to do with the permissions at Linux.
    <resolved>

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-on-localhost/#post-1718443)
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