Title: Problem with automatic plugin install/upgrading
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem with automatic plugin install/upgrading

 *  [inefavel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inefavel/)
 * (@inefavel)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-automatic-plugin-installupgrading/)
 * Hi,
 * I have several installations of wordpress. However, I just did a fresh install
   on my VPS, and when I try to automatic download/upgrade plugins (or even wordpress)
   it asks for my ftp password.
    I dont have ftp access to this server and I dont
   want to use this feature – how do I make it work like it used to? Like, automatically?
   I’m not talking about changing my wp-config.php file to include ftp info, i’m
   talking about making it upgrade with no FTP access, like it used to do on all
   my other installations.
 * How do I do that? I tried everything with permissions (even chown’d the wp-content
   directory to www-data, and setting it recursively to 777) and it requests my 
   password every time.
 * Ideas?
 * thanks!
 * Jean

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-automatic-plugin-installupgrading/#post-1636140)
 * Do you have ssh access? Or a channel id and password? Try those. But you have
   to have had some way of uploading files, right? Try whatever user/password combo
   you had for that.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-automatic-plugin-installupgrading/#post-1636140)
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