Title: Plugins not activating
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugins not activating

 *  [fluffypig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fluffypig/)
 * (@fluffypig)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-activating-2/)
 * Hi everybody,
 * I have a really confusing problem with my plugins.
 * When I upload them, they appear as expected in the Plugins panel. But I can’t
   activate them.
 * When I click activate the page refreshes and says ‘Plugin activated.’ in the 
   yellow box at the top. However the plugin in not activates and still appears 
   in white with ‘Activate’ link.
 * I would appreciate any help with this matter.

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 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-activating-2/#post-799022)
 * I never heard of that. The only think I can think of is wrong file permissions.
   You don’t have the plugin folder or any of the plugin files set to not writable
   by anyone? If that’s not it, I wouldn’t know…
 *  Thread Starter [fluffypig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fluffypig/)
 * (@fluffypig)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-activating-2/#post-799043)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.
 * Unfortunately it’s not the permissions, that is the first thing I thought of.
 * Does anybody know anything about file groups though? As I notice the ‘group’ 
   for this particular blogs files is ‘psacln’ I have no idea what this means but
   all of my other blogs have the username as ‘group’.
 * Unfortunately I am not able to change from ‘psacln’.
 * Anybody??
 *  [aaronr79](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronr79/)
 * (@aaronr79)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-activating-2/#post-799046)
 * Hi
 * Can you log in to your server using SSH and change the user:group association?
 * ps – it’s not my plugin that’s causing problems is it ?
 *  Thread Starter [fluffypig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fluffypig/)
 * (@fluffypig)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-activating-2/#post-799049)
 * It was your plugin that alerted me of the problem but I’m 100% sure it’s not 
   the cause as it’s doing the same with any plugin I try. I can’t even deactivate
   plugins anymore.
 * I have figured that it MUST be because the Group ownership has somehow changes,
   I can’t change it back with any FTP program so SSH was my next step. I’m not 
   very experienced with it so am doing a little research first.
 *  Thread Starter [fluffypig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fluffypig/)
 * (@fluffypig)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-activating-2/#post-799055)
 * So the nightmare continues…
 * I figured out the SSH commands but now I can’t seem to connect! I’m using ssh
   user@host and it then asks me for the password… upon entering the password the
   connection is ‘closed’.
 * Any ideas? Is there something on the server that could stop me being able to 
   SSH? Can I change it? It’s not my server it’s a clients…

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [fluffypig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fluffypig/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-activating-2/#post-799055)
 * Status: not resolved

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