<div dir="ltr">googling your problem shows some solutions that might help. i'm not a wordpress user myself, more of a general unix sysadmin.<div><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987108/upload-or-delete-wp-plugins-without-a-ftp-account">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987108/upload-or-delete-wp-plugins-without-a-ftp-account</a> <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 8:34 PM James Mcphee <<a href="mailto:jmcphe@gmail.com">jmcphe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">does the wordpress service run as a user with membership in the www-data group? It should, but you never know.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 8:18 PM <<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
<p>Thanks!!</p>
<p>Ownership is <span>{my-user-name}:www-data</span></p>
<p>Permissions is 775</p>
<p>I added <span>{my-user-name} to the www-data group : </span>usermod -a -G www-data <span>{my-user-name}</span></p>
<p>/etc/group has an entry www-data:x:33:<span>{my-user-name} which I assume verifies {my-user-name} was added to the www-data group?</span></p>
<p>I can SFTP and I can remote edit using my editor, however WordPress asks for FTP credentials when I try to remove a plugin.</p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
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<p>On 2019-06-20 19:47, James Mcphee wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">Also, you're going to want to add your user to the www-data group. Then check to see what perms a modified or added file has. If it's not something you can write to, you'll have to set some suids or default facls.</div>
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<div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:42 PM James Mcphee <<a href="mailto:jmcphe@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmcphe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">You need to give www-data write access for wordpress to be able to write to files. chmod -R 775 www/
<div>Whether a web daemon SHOULD have access to edit its own files is a whole nother question.</div>
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<div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:35 PM <<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p>Hi I am running a local server running Ubunto 16.04LTS with a stock LAMP install that runs stock Apache.</p>
<p>I have an install of WordPress under /var/www/vhost/{vhost-name}/public_html</p>
<p>Here is my problem.</p>
<p>I can either FTP or WordPress can edit / remove file. I cannot do both. Not sure why.</p>
<p>To allow WordPress to modify files I must: (I cannot SFTP)</p>
<ul>
<li>chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/</li>
<li>chmod -R 755 www/</li>
</ul>
<p><span>To allow me to SFTP I must change the file ownership: (WordPress cannot modify files)</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span>chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span>I would like to be able to FTP and allow WordPress to modify files.</span></p>
<p><span>Any help much appreciated.</span></p>
<p><span>Thanks!!</span></p>
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