meckanix

Finally found the soltuion – https://forums.bytemark.co.uk/t/how-to-migrate-your-wordpress-site-onto-a-server-running-symbiosis/2152/11

🙂

If you’re running PHP as the Apache (www-data) user, then you will have problems with uploading files if the WordPress files/directories are owned by any other user.

I’m definiately running Apache as www-data:

hound:/srv# cat /etc/apache2/envvars
<SNIP>
export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data

A much better solution is to reconfigure Apache to run PHP as the same user who owns the WordPress files, and then use PHP-FPM.

Yep the files/directory are owned by www-data:

hound:/srv# ls -la /srv/DOMAIN/public/htdocs/
total 188
drwxr-sr-x  7 www-data www-data  4096 Feb 27 08:52 .
drwxr-sr-x  4 www-data www-data  4096 Feb 20 19:31 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   418 Feb 20 23:10 index.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 19930 Feb 20 23:10 license.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  7360 Feb 20 23:10 readme.html
drwxr-sr-x  2 www-data www-data  4096 Feb 21 05:44 stats
drwxr-sr-x  3 www-data www-data  4096 Feb 21 00:00 .well-known
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  5035 Feb 20 23:10 wp-activate.php
drwxr-sr-x  9 www-data www-data  4096 Feb 20 23:11 wp-admin
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   271 Feb 20 23:11 wp-blog-header.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  1369 Feb 20 23:11 wp-comments-post.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  3114 Feb 20 23:11 wp-config.php
drwxr-sr-x  5 www-data www-data  4096 Feb 20 23:11 wp-content
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  3286 Feb 20 23:11 wp-cron.php
drwxr-sr-x 16 www-data www-data  4096 Feb 20 23:12 wp-includes
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  2380 Feb 20 23:12 wp-links-opml.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  3316 Feb 20 23:12 wp-load.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 33770 Feb 20 23:12 wp-login.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  7887 Feb 20 23:12 wp-mail.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 13021 Feb 20 23:12 wp-settings.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 28594 Feb 20 23:12 wp-signup.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  4035 Feb 20 23:12 wp-trackback.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  3061 Feb 20 23:12 xmlrpc.php

I followed https://www.linode.com/docs/websites/apache/running-fastcgi-php-fpm-on-debian-7-with-apache , execpt for the section ‘Configuring PHP Pools (Optional)’ and I’m still getting the errors :-/

Hi DionDesgins,
Apologies when I say a local install I mean on the dedicate server that I have control of.

If it’s a localhost install, go to your WAMP/MAM?XAMPP dashboard and run phpinfo(). Scroll down the the extensions section and look for the curl extension.

Apologies, but I don’t know how to check that or see the dashboard, but I did find that curl wasn’t installed at all as part of the default OS installation I had picked, so I have installed curl via the package manager.

If it is not there, make sure you have added curl as an extension in your Apache configuration. If curl is in your Apache configuration and is not available in PHP, then you are missing one or more required library files, and you will need to fix your localhost installation.

I can’t find a line mentioning curl in my apache config:

hound:/# cat /etc/apache2/apache2.conf | grep -i curl
hound:/#

So it looks like I’m a little suck until I can access the WAMP/MAM?XAMPP dashboard and get curl referenced in the Apache and PHP configurations 🙁