WordPress, Nginx, CentOS 7, PHP-FPM – No autoupdate!

Hi Guys and Gals,

I have an issue, and for the life of me I can’t figure out why this is happening.

I use a cloud based server (Cloudatcost) running CentOS 7. I have installed nginx, php-fpm and have configured them correctly… as far as I know.

WordPress was installed via wget http://www.wordpress.org/latest.zip into /usr/share/nginx/html

I setup my db as root for username and no password. I’m using mariadb as the mysql stand in.

I will now paste in my config files.

wp-config.php

<?php
/**
 * The base configuration for WordPress
 *
 * The wp-config.php creation script uses this file during the
 * installation. You don't have to use the web site, you can
 * copy this file to "wp-config.php" and fill in the values.
 *
 * This file contains the following configurations:
 *
 * * MySQL settings
 * * Secret keys
 * * Database table prefix
 * * ABSPATH
 *
 * @link https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'root');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', '');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8mb4');

/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

/**#@+
 * Authentication Unique Keys and Salts.
 *
 * Change these to different unique phrases!
 * You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ WordPress.org secret-key $
 * You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have $
 *
 * @since 2.6.0
 */
< define all keys >
< shh this is secret >
/**#@-*/

/**
 * WordPress Database Table prefix.
 *
 * You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each
 * a unique prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
$table_prefix  = 'wp_';

/**
 * For developers: WordPress debugging mode.
 *
 * Change this to true to enable the display of notices during development.
 * It is strongly recommended that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG
 * in their development environments.
 *
 * For information on other constants that can be used for debugging,
 * visit the Codex.
 *
 * @link https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress
 */
define('WP_DEBUG', false);

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
        define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');

/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

http://www.conf

All I have done for this is changed user and group to nginx

default.conf

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  localhost;

    #charset koi8-r;
    #access_log  /var/log/nginx/log/host.access.log  main;

        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm index.php;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    #error_page  404              /404.html;

    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    #
    #error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    #location = /50x.html {
    #    root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    #}

    # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
    #
    #location ~ \.php$ {
    #    proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1;
    #}

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    #
    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $request_filename;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    #location ~ /\.ht {
    #    deny  all;
    #}
}

Permissions are below…

-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx   418 Sep 24  2013 index.php
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx 19930 Jan  1  2015 license.txt
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx  7358 Apr 23 14:00 readme.html
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx  4951 Aug 20  2014 wp-activate.php
drwxr-xr-x.  9 nginx nginx  4096 Aug 18 14:13 wp-admin
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx   271 Jan  8  2012 wp-blog-header.php
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx  5007 Jan  8  2015 wp-comments-post.php
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx  3034 Aug 28 08:47 wp-config.php
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx  2764 May  9 20:06 wp-config-sample.php
drwxr-xr-x.  4 nginx nginx    49 Aug 18 14:13 wp-content
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx  3286 May 24 13:26 wp-cron.php
drwxr-xr-x. 12 nginx nginx  4096 Aug 18 14:13 wp-includes
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx  2380 Oct 24  2013 wp-links-opml.php
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx  3123 Apr 12 17:29 wp-load.php
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx 34669 Jul 28 23:56 wp-login.php
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx  8252 Jul 17  2014 wp-mail.php
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx 11062 Jun 24 22:29 wp-settings.php
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx 25124 Jun 26 21:03 wp-signup.php
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx  4035 Nov 30  2014 wp-trackback.php
-rw-r--r--.  1 nginx nginx  3055 Jul 28 08:17 xmlrpc.php

Everytime I try to update/install a plugin, theme or media, it says I don’t have write permissions and asks for my FTP credentials (which don’t work anyway).

I have literally followed this tutorial perfectly! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_6jxrCA1P8

No good, at step 2 of the install process it says can not create wp-config, do it manually (which I did).

Can you think of anything I’m missing?