How would I know what user WordPress runs as? And how would I know what groups that user is in? On 2019-06-20 20:34, James Mcphee wrote: > does the wordpress service run as a user with membership in the www-data group? It should, but you never know. > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 8:18 PM wrote: > > Thanks!! > > Ownership is {my-user-name}:www-data > > Permissions is 775 > > I added {my-user-name} to the www-data group : usermod -a -G www-data {my-user-name} > > /etc/group has an entry www-data:x:33:{my-user-name} which I assume verifies {my-user-name} was added to the www-data group? > > I can SFTP and I can remote edit using my editor, however WordPress asks for FTP credentials when I try to remove a plugin. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks!! > > On 2019-06-20 19:47, James Mcphee wrote: > 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. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:42 PM James Mcphee wrote: > You need to give www-data write access for wordpress to be able to write to files. chmod -R 775 www/ > Whether a web daemon SHOULD have access to edit its own files is a whole nother question. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:35 PM wrote: > > Hi I am running a local server running Ubunto 16.04LTS with a stock LAMP install that runs stock Apache. > > I have an install of WordPress under /var/www/vhost/{vhost-name}/public_html > > Here is my problem. > > I can either FTP or WordPress can edit / remove file. I cannot do both. Not sure why. > > To allow WordPress to modify files I must: (I cannot SFTP) > > * chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ > * chmod -R 755 www/ > > To allow me to SFTP I must change the file ownership: (WordPress cannot modify files) > > * chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ > > I would like to be able to FTP and allow WordPress to modify files. > > Any help much appreciated. > > Thanks!! > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe@gmail.com -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss