Title: plugins being installed into another directory
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# plugins being installed into another directory

 *  [tinycg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tinycg/)
 * (@tinycg)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-being-installed-into-another-directory/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-being-installed-into-another-directory/#post-3113998)
 * Did you set a path in the general settings (or wp-config.php)?
 *  Thread Starter [tinycg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tinycg/)
 * (@tinycg)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-being-installed-into-another-directory/#post-3114001)
 * 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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 * Last reply from: [tinycg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tinycg/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-being-installed-into-another-directory/#post-3114001)
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