Can somebody help me, how should i create a a directory for plugins, there's already a folder created in Hostgator's Cpanel "Public_html>Wp_content>plugins".
But still if i install any plugin, this error pop ups "Installation failed: Could not create directory." please help, Thank You in advance
You just need to give the permission to the folder.
When you installing any plugin it will uploaded to /wp-content/plugins directory.
Now there is three option to achieve this.
1) connect ssh and go to desire path and run chmod command
Chmod 777 -Rf /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins
2) Open file manager from cpanel and go desire path and select folder and give the permission
3) creat a script which give me the folder permission. You can get that script on google
Here is one of the link :
https://gist.github.com/jasperf/5755794
I have a wordpress install and I want to be able to do the following two things:
automatically install plugins via the backend without providing an FTP/SSH user
upload files via FTP
To achieve point 1. I have read that I have to execute the following command: chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www. That means that the user/group www-data becomes owner of all files and folders in /var/www. After executing this command, the automatic installation of plugins works like a charm.
However, I now am not able to edit/upload files via FTP anymore. For FTP I use a different user named ftpuser. The following error is shown in my FTP client when I try to upload a new file: [Filename] open for write: permission denied
I put the ftpuser in the group www-data, hence I think that ftpuser should be able to write:
root#xyz:~# grep 'www-data' /etc/group
www-data:x:33:ftpuser
The file permissions on the folder /var/www are 755.
What is my issue here?
Can you please try by using the below code in wp-config.php :
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
Hope that will work.
I was trying to setting up my AWS beanstalk by following the implementation guide provided by AWS.
But when I got to the "Launch an Elastic Beanstalk Environment" section, this message appeared which basically said the app is not created.
Here's the message:
[Instance: i-088472611e1ef4405] Command failed on instance. Return
code: 1 Output: ln: failed to create symbolic link
'wp-content/uploads': No such file or directory. container_command
2link in wordpress-beanstalk/.ebextensions/efs-mount.config failed.
For more detail, check /var/log/eb-activity.log using console or EB
CLI.
Does anyone have the same problem or know how to resolve this?
Try changing the efs-mount to read the following, the directory clearly doesn't exist so lets just create it.
container_commands:
1chown:
command: "chown webapp:webapp /wpfiles"
2create:
command: "sudo -u webapp mkdir -p wp-content/uploads"
3link:
command: "sudo -u webapp ln -s /wpfiles wp-content/uploads"
2create will create the directory owned by the webapp user and should let you continue.
I just faced the same issue. I am going to assume deploying via the AWS console. That is how I started.
STEP 1: I checked if there was an actual directory wp-content/uploads in wordpress-beanstalk and there was not. It might get created on the first WP upload So, I created the folder, rezipped the application, and deployed to Beanstalk via the AWS Console.
I still received the same error and moved on to step 2
STEP 2: Run EB DEPLOY from the command line
from my local wordpress-beanstalk directory
eb init
choose region (if you already created your app should be this region)
if you already created application choose that wordpress-beanstalk for example
eb use name of your environment
eb deploy
I am not certain that Step 1 is related to Step 2, but was able to successfully deploy facing the same issue using EB CLI.
This is the mounting error of EFS .
EB is using EFS storage to store the wordpress files .
Please check the no.7 in documentation .
"Modify the configuration files in the .ebextensions folder with the IDs of your default VPC and subnets, and your public IP address."
Please edit the efs-create.config file inside the .ebextension folder.
A bit late here so for anyone else having this issue, it's caused when that directory does not exist. Here are some reasons this might happen:
1). WP has not created it - Check manually that it exists.
2). .gitignore - When a .ebignore file is not present, EB uses your .gitignore instead. This can cause the directory to not be uploaded with the EB deploy command. If this is the case, make a .ebignore, EB will start ignoring the .gitignore
3). Document root - If you have modified the document root, to something like /src you have to modify the efs-mount.config file.
##############################################
#### Do not modify values below this line ####
##############################################
container_commands:
1chown:
command: "chown webapp:webapp /wpfiles"
2link:
command: "sudo -u webapp ln -s /wpfiles src/wp-content/uploads"
Even though the file mentions not to modify it, you have to add your document root path in the 2link entry. Change wp-content/uploads to src/wp-content/uploads (replace src with your document root)
Finally, I would not include a command to automatically make this directory, as that only puts a band-aid on the problem.
Hope this helps
I would like to create a cron that remove a file every 24hrs but it doesn't work for me !
emptyCache.php permission 755
rm -rf app/cache/*
I use for that a cron from OVH to do the job, I follow the process but the folder wasn't removed! My question is: is it the right command?
Here is an example of script which should work on a OVH hosting (Pro 2014), you don't need to use any PHP or Symfony2 file or command:
File: /homez.807/[my_login]/symfony2/launch_commands.php
#!/bin/bash
rm -rf /homez.807/[my_login]/symfony2/app/cache/*
It's simpler to put the full path of the directory you want to erase, but you can also use the cd command to change the directory then delete the sub-directory.
And here is the configuration in the OVH manager (see the Cron tab):
So the ./ is the root of you web hosting, corresponding to /homez.807/[my_login]/. Here are the two important options :
Script: we have to put the relative path (from the root of the web hosting) of the script: symfony2/launch_commands.sh
Language: Other because the script should be executed by the shell, not the PHP interpreter
Logs: you should enable logs in order to send the result of the cron task by email
Description: choose an explicit name
I installed a WordPress blog in my local system. But when I try to add plugins from admin it asks for FTP access. What do I need to configure for WordPress to be able to upload without FTP?
Try to add the code in wp-config.php:
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
If you are using Ubuntu.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data PATH_TO_YOUR_WORDPRESS_FOLDER
"Whenever you use the WordPress control panel to automatically install, upgrade, or delete plugins, WordPress must make changes to files on the filesystem.
Before making any changes, WordPress first checks to see whether or not it has access to directly manipulate the file system.
If WordPress does not have the necessary permissions to modify the filesystem directly, you will be asked for FTP credentials so that WordPress can try to do what it needs to via FTP."
Solution:
In order to find out what user your instance of apache is running as, create a test script with the following content:
<?php echo(exec("whoami")); ?>
For me, it was daemon and not www-data. Then, fix the permission by:
sudo chown -R daemon /path/to/your/local/www/folder
If during installation of a plugin, Wordpress asks for your hostname or FTP details.
Then follow these steps:
Login to your server and navigate to /var/www/html/wordpress/.
Open wp-config.php and add this line after define(‘DB_COLLATE’)
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
If you get "Could not create directory" error. Give write permissions to your wordpress directory in recursive as
chmod -R go+w wordpress
NOTE. For security, revoke these permissions once you install a plugin as
chmod -R go-w wordpress
I changed the ownership of the wordpress folder to www-data recursively and restarted apache.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data <folderpath>
It worked like a charm!
On OSX, I used the following, and it worked:
sudo chown -R _www:_www {path to wordpress folder}
_www is the user that PHP runs under on the Mac.
(You may also need to chmod some folders too. I had done that first and it didn't fix it. It wasn't until I did the chown command that it worked, so I'm not sure if it was the chown command alone, or a combination of chmod and chown.)
I did a local install of WordPress on Ubuntu 14.04 following the steps outlined here and simply running:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data {path_to_your_project_directory}
solved my issue with downloading plugins. The only reason I'm leaving this post here is because when I googled my issue, this was one of the first results and it led me to the solution to my problem.
Hope this one helps to anyone!
There's a lot of similar responses to this question, but none of them fully touch on the root cause. Sebastian Schmid's comment on the original post touches on it but not fully. Here's my take as of 2018-11-06:
Root Cause
When you try to upload a plugin through the WordPress admin interface, WordPress will make a call over to a function called "get_filesystem_method()" (ref: /wp-admin/includes/file.php:1549). This routine will attempt to write a file to the location in question (in this case the plugin directory). It can of course fail here immediately if file permissions aren't setup right to allow the WordPress user (think the user identity executing the php) to write the file to the location in question.
If the file can be created, this function then detects the file owner of the temporary file, along with the file owner of the function's current file (ref: /wp-admin/includes/file.php:1572) and compares the two. If they match then, in WordPress's words, "WordPress is creating files as the same owner as the WordPress files, this means it's safe to modify & create new files via PHP" and your plugin is uploaded successfully without the FTP Credentials prompt. If they don't match, you get the FTP Credentials prompt.
Fixes
Ensure the plugin directory is writable by the identity running your php process.
Ensure the identity that is running your php process is the file owner for either:
a) All WordPress application files, or...
b) At the very least the /wp-admin/includes/file.php file
Final Comments
I'm not overly keen on specifically applying file ownership to the file.php to work around this issue (it feels a tad hacky to say the least!). It seems to me at this point that the WordPress code base is leaning towards having us execute the PHP process under the same user principal as the file owner for the WordPress application files. I would welcome some comments from the community on this.
From the first hit on Google:
WordPress asks for your FTP credentials when it can't access the files
directly. This is usually caused by PHP running as the apache user
(mod_php or CGI) rather than the user that owns your WordPress files.
This is rather normal in most shared hosting environments - the files are stored as the user, and Apache runs as user apache or httpd. This is actually a good security precaution so exploits and hacks cannot modify hosted files. You could circumvent this by setting all WP files to 777 security, but that means no security, so I would highly advise against that. Just use FTP, it's the automatically advised workaround with good reason.
For me the the process that solved, to be able to work on my localhost using Ubuntu, was:
(of course you must replace myUser by your user, whoami show it for you if you dont know)
Include myself on www-data group (to be able to access and edit files without sudo):
sudo usermod -aG www-data myUser
Set myself and this group as files owners:
sudo chown -R myUser:www-data /var/www/html
Set a major permission for the group (the group must write too):
sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
Then add this line on config.php
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
The easiest way to solve this problem is add the following FTP information to your wp-config.php
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
define('FTP_BASE', '/usr/home/username/public_html/my-site.example.com/wordpress/');
define('FTP_CONTENT_DIR', '/usr/home/username/public_html/my-site.example.com/wordpress/wp-content/');
define('FTP_PLUGIN_DIR ', '/usr/home/username/public_html/my-site.example.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/');
FTP_BASE is the full path to the "base"(ABSPATH) folder of the WordPress installation
FTP_CONTENT_DIR is the full path to the wp-content folder of the WordPress installation.
FTP_PLUGIN_DIR is the full path to the plugins folder of the WordPress installation.
We had the same problem as part of a bigger problem. The suggested solution of
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
hides that window but then we still had problems with loading themes and upgrades etc. It is related to permissions however in our case we fixed the problem by moving from php OS vendor mod_php to the more secure php OS vendor FastCGI application.
First move to your installation folder (for example)
cd /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/
Now we’re going to modify your htdocs directory:
sudo chown -R daemon htdocs
Enter your root password when prompted, then finish it out with a chmod call:
sudo chmod -R g+w htdocs
I was facing the same problem!
I've added the code below in wp-config.php file (in any line) and it's working now!
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
Add this to wp-config.php
If the issue still persist , you can try setting permission of plugin folder to 755
Or in linux you can set it by this command
Chmod -R 755
As mentioned by Niels, this happens because the server process user can't write to the Wordpress folder.
But here's the thing a lot of articles don't explain. It's the owner of the php process, not the nginx process. If you try to change the nginx owner, it won't solve this.
To solve it, try running ps aux to see which user owns the php-fpm process. Then check that user is the same user as the owner of the wordpress folder, or can at least write to it. If the user can't write to it, you'll need to change permissions and/or ownership of the folder; or put the two users (server owner and wordpress folder owner) in a common group which can write to the folder; or change php.ini "user" property to a user that can write to the folder.
Changing the ownership of the files worked but only after I logged out of my wordpress website and logged in again. I also restarted the Apache server, but that may not be necessary.