plugins being installed into another directory

  • tinycg

    (@tinycg)


    13 years, 7 months ago

    I’ve been dealing with a few bugs in a wordpress install I have and just noticed I have a very strange issue where plugins that are being added from the dashboard via ‘add new’ are being installed into a completely different directory.

    For example, my absolute path to the WP install is something like this:
    /home/user/httpdocs/

    Yet when adding plugins WP seems to have created a new folder and dumped plugins here:
    /home/user/home/user/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins

    It basically seems to be ignoring the actual absolute path or at least duplicating the /home/user portion.

    Has anyone else seen this before? What could be causing it? WP still sees plugins in the proper directory /home/user/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins and is able to activate and delete them from there as well.. so if I upload them via ftp to this location all is well.. if I use ‘add new’ things appear to get screwy.

    Appreciate any feedback.

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  • Pioneer Web Design

    (@swansonphotos)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    Did you set a path in the general settings (or wp-config.php)?

    Thread Starter tinycg

    (@tinycg)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    In general settings both the URLs are set to the main domain, which is correct. I see no place in general settings to set an absolute path. I also don’t see that in my wp-config.php

    I do however have an FTP user defined in my wp-config, with the base path their set to /httpdocs/ but that seems correct because that is the starting point for the FTP user to put things into the WP install directory.

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