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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Plugins not showing in dashboard so you can activate them.Thank you to those who tried. No one should say I knew that, or I could have told you that. I figured out my issue was with file permissions and ownership. What was screwing my plugins up was, I was downloading and unzipping them on a Windows machine. Then I was transfering them to my LAMP server via usb thumb drive. So on a whem I downloaded, untared and placed the plugins in the pluging directory from the LAMP server, when I logged in to WordPress there they were. I was able to activate and use them. I found that the plugins need to have the owner and group as root for them to work and when I was copying them from thumb they had my login name as their owner and group.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Plugins not showing in dashboard so you can activate them.My server is at my home, so I have direct access.
I did get to wondering if permissions were and issue and this is what I saw:drwxr-xr-x 2 hemlock root 4096 2008-09-08 14:28 akismet
drwx—— 2 hemlock hemlock 4096 2008-09-10 19:17 countdown-timer
drwx—— 2 hemlock hemlock 4096 2008-09-10 19:17 ebibleicious
drwx—— 6 hemlock hemlock 4096 2008-09-10 18:59 events-calendar
drwx—— 3 hemlock hemlock 4096 2008-09-10 19:17 quotes-collection
drwx—— 2 hemlock hemlock 4096 2008-09-10 19:17 sms-text-messageThe plugin that came with the WordPress install “akismet” has read, write, and execute for owner, execute, read for group, and execute for others. One other thing “akismet’s” group is “root.” The owner and group are the same for the plugins I added. The permissions that where added to the plugins I added only have permissions for the owner. Could that be a problem? The owner controls the sql database and the WordPress installation. I only have one WordPress installation. Below are the permissions for my folders/directories. Later today I will try to give the same permissions to my plugins as “akismet” that came with the install.
drwxr-xr-x 4 hemlock root 4096 2008-09-08 14:28 wp-content
drwxr-xr-x 4 hemlock root 4096 2008-09-08 14:28 wp-content
drwxr-xr-x 9 hemlock root 4096 2008-09-10 19:34 pluginsForum: Plugins
In reply to: Plugins not showing in dashboard so you can activate them.You tell me know one here has a clue what I’m talking about. I cannot believe no one else has not seen this, or do you all let someone else set wordpress up for you. Thanks to those who tried by the way.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Plugins not showing in dashboard so you can activate them.To answer your comment:
1) You didn’t upload any plugin;
Plugin is defiantly there2) You uploaded them to the wrong folder;
/wordpress/wp-content/plugins (folder is correct)3) You put them “nested”;
They have their own folder and are not /plugin-name/plugin-name as would result from the unzip, also is in its own folder just like the two plugins that came w/ the installSTILL NEED A RESOLUTION TO MY PROBLEM