Title: Localhost asks for FTP credentials
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Localhost asks for FTP credentials

 *  [bg46z](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bg46z/)
 * (@bg46z)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-asks-for-ftp-credentials/)
 * My LOCAL install of wordpress is not letting me do anything on the administrative
   back-end. It asks for FTP credentials when I shouldn’t need FTP credentials at
   all. I’ve searched extensively for an answer to this, but I can’t seem to find
   one. It all boils down to file permissions, but the issue is, I can’t tell what
   the permissions should be. I have tried 777, 775, 755 and changing the user/group
   to the apache user/group, but to no avail.
 * I’m using Fedora 18 and Apache works, and mysql works. I just can’t make the 
   install work without the credentials. And It’s confusing because on no other 
   local installation on any other OS would I be confronted with this error in file
   permissions.
 * If any of you could help, it would be much appreciated.

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 *  [Don Betts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbetts/)
 * (@dbetts)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-asks-for-ftp-credentials/#post-3496249)
 * My localhost on mac does the same thing – what happens when you put in the credentials(
   should be the same as your username and password for your user account on your
   computer)
 * See also: [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/57166/ftp-credentials-on-localhost](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/57166/ftp-credentials-on-localhost)

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## Tags

 * [credentials](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/credentials/)
 * [File Permissions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/file-permissions/)
 * [ftp](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ftp/)
 * [wp-config.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-config-php/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Don Betts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbetts/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-asks-for-ftp-credentials/#post-3496249)
 * Status: not resolved

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