I have a WordPress instance running locally on my mac with XAMPP.
It's working fine but when I want to install something I have to login with my ftp username and password.
I've tried to use my username and password which I use to logon to WordPress. Also I used my tried my database credentials. I really have no idea which other logon credentials I should have.
FTP credentials do not refer to your login details, it refers to credentials for File Transfer Protocol, it is given to you when you purchase a web hosting service or setup one yourself on your machine.
An alternative to this would be to download the plugin or theme you want and paste it to your /{website folder}/wp-content/themes or /{website folder}/wp-content/plugins
Try to
Right click to htdocs folder, choose Get info
Click the lock icon, type your MacOS account password to unlock below options.
Allow everyone Read & Write permission, the click the cog icon and choose Apply to enclosed items..., this should apply all r+w permission to sub-folders.
Done
I want to share my local wordpress site with another developer with git in a way our database will be same when he setups my wordpress site in his local PC.
I am using windows 7 OS
I'm not sure if what you are asking for is possible.
here is my suggestion (the database should be on a real server)
if you use CPanel:
1- In the CPanel create the database and new user and assign the user to the database
2- In the CPanel Go to Remote MySQL, add your IP address and the other developer IP address. (to allow remote access)
3- Export the database from your local PC and import it to the CPanel.
4- Change the wp-config.php configuration.
Note: The urls should be the same on your PC and the developer pc.
for example if your website url on your pc is : http://localhost/mywebsite/
the other developer should make it the same.
I would suggest keeping your database out of git (except perhaps the database definitions).
Instead you can leverage git hooks. Using something like pre-push, run a mysql dump command to get the current state of your db, and copy it to a shared Dropbox/Drive folder with your team mate.
.git/hooks/pre-push
#!/bin/bash
mysqldump -u root -p --all-databases > ~/Dropbox/shared-with-tm/mysql.sql
Completely untested This is a vague answer to answer a vague question - but might give you a starting point.
I'm new to Drupal. I want to run my Drupal website locally and connect directly to the remote database, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it. I have MAMP installed on the Mac and I have all the files in the htdocs folder. It looks like I just need to change the settings.php file to match my remote database, but I'm unsure what I need to change.
I guest you look at this drupal.org HowTo that step by step guides you through creating the database and what you need to change before running the Install program.
https://www.drupal.org/node/66187
Also check the comments on that thread.
Yes, you have to adjust your settings file (/sites/default.settings.php), database configuration. Watch out, usually there is a different ("external") host for accessing database from out of server. I think that it can be set per database user does it has privileges to access database from outer server or not. Maybe there's some special user for that.
There should not be any extra setup or configuration. Just make sure that
You are connected to the remote database (usually goes in sites/default/settings.php).
The database host allows remote connections.
I'm trying to give the correct permissions to the user that Joomla (v1.6) runs as to enable uploading on a windows 2008 IIS7 box. I'm finding lots of conflicting responses on ye-ole internets.
When I go to the System Information -> Directory Permissions page in Joomla admin I can see that all directories are not writable. And, I've attempted the following.
I checked to make sure that -
My www service runs as: NETWORK SERVICE
My php-cgi.exe runs as: NETWORK SERVICE
I added the NETWORK SERVICE user to the root of the site (as a simple test) with full control and then went to advanced and had it propagate all permissions to sub-directories. None of the folders became writable from Joomla's point of view.
The only way to get the folders (and there are many) writable by Joomla, so far, has been to give the everyone user write access.
This is completely baffling me. I would really appreciate any help anyone can give!
As I commented, you have to setup proper rights for access.
The NETWORK SERVICE is the user for your application pool.
You can setup a user entity that access your local files.
As you can see in the screenshot (sorry, german only) you can choose your site, then check default settings and edit "connect as" and choose a user (you create a yoomla user before and grant rights to your local directories).
With this you can make it run imho.
I am trying to FTP to a new FTP site I setup with IIS 7.0 for the Windows Server Web (64-bit) edition. But I get the above error when I try to login to this site. But I can login to my other FTP sites.
Also, when I select this website from IIS Manager, the FTP section does not display in the middle section although it does display in Action panel. And I cannot successfully login to this FTP site either.
I have checked and I have Log on locally selected. I do not have allow only anonymous connections. I have Access this computer from the network selected.
I restarted my IIS and FTP services also.
The one different thing I noticed about this website in IIS different from the other site that has FTP working is that this one there are 3 virtual directories beneath the site. And that when I click on any one of these 3, then the FTP strip does appear in the center pane. Make sense?
How can I debug cause of this error? Any SW tools I can use?
Have you tried logging in from the FTP server? If you do this, and have "Show detailed messages from local requests" enabled under FTP Messages, then you'll get a clearer idea as to why the login if failing. In my case I got the following message (I am using IIS Manager Users, and Passthrough authentication)
530-User cannot log in.
Win32 error: Access is denied.
Error details: Filename: \\?\C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\redirection.config
Error: Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions
To solve this I gave the NETWORK SERVICES user read only access to the config directory specified in the error message. I'm not 100% sure this is the right thing to do, but it certainly fixed this issue for me.
in my situation, I was missing Role Service FTP extensibility, which is actually allows IIS Manager Auth.
This is pretty tricky, as you could allow IIS Manager auth, but still it would not work until you have not installed FTP Extensibility
In my case I forgot to enable the Basic authentication
There seem to be many different possible causes. In my case, I was unable to login with the plain "username" with the same error as mentioned.
It was solved when I logged in with ".\username" instead.
For some reason the FTP client was trying to login with a domain account, while I just wanted to login with a local computer account.
Hope this helps someone.
Try submitting your credentials in this format:
UserName: Domain|Username
Password: secretSquirrel
I had the same problem, I removed the FTP site and followed this:
http://www.iis.net/learn/publish/using-the-ftp-service/configure-ftp-with-iis-manager-authentication-in-iis-7
Prerequisites - I set the permissions on the folders using the 4 command samples but this did not alone fix the issue, so I cannot in good faith say this step is needed, but it is what I did and it now works.
CONFIGURE THE IIS MANAGEMENT SERVICE AND ADD AN IIS 7 MANAGER -
Just do step 4, removing the existing user first and then re-adding them.
Creating a New FTP Site and Configuring an IIS 7 Manager Account -
All the steps here
CONFIGURE THE FTP SITE TO USE IIS 7 MANAGER AUTHENTICATION
All 12 steps here, including the "administrator" setting in step 5.
Then it started working for me, I am guessing when I did this without a guide I skipped something simple.
In My case I have made that user a member of IIS_IUSERS.
Using IIS Users.
Do not isolate users -> User name directory was working fine. Users started in the right folder.
When I was switching to Isolate Users -> User name Directory I had the following error:
Response: 530 User cannot log in, home directory inaccessible.
Win32 error: The system cannot find the path specified.
For some reason, you need to add the LocalUser virtual directory that points to your root.
It has to be that exact name and it's case sensitive.
That worked for me.
Per this knowledgebase article, you would need the log on locally privilege enabled.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/200475
I had the exact same error. In my case, I was using a local user defined on the server running FTP. The username was very short (3 characters). I could "run as" this user on the server, confirming that Windows was Ok with it, and allowed it to authenticate. But when testing FTP, it would return User cannot log in.
Solution? I renamed the user to be longer (4 characters). Of course, updated its name under Authorization as well. Then FTP worked. Hope it helps someone!
For me, I've configured the IIS as per usual procedure properly. The anonymous authentication was working but specific user are not.
because, the user accounts were created in IIS. Actually it was also supposed to be created Windows local accounts.
Then it worked.
Please Check the security of folder which is use that ftp .
see if the user or group you select for that ftp is associate with security of that folder .
In my case I had to remove domain from user.
So, your user should be like username, not like domain\username.
Hope it helps to somebody.
For some reason my user was "locked". So I could "unlock" it at local user manager (computer management). Now it works fine. I hope it helps.
I would recommend checking FTP logs first. The status code will give you more information about the issue. Here is the explanation of the status codes: The FTP status codes in IIS 7.0 and later versions
I had this issue because my IIS didn't support passive mode. After entering data in FTP Firewall Support module, the issue was solved.
More scenarios from this post 530 User cannot log in, home directory inaccessible
Authorization rules. Make sure to have an Authorization rule that allows the user or anonymous access. Check “IIS > FTP site > FTP Authorization Rules” page to allow or deny access for certain or all users.
NTFS permissions. The FTP users (local or domain users) should have permissions on the physical folder. Right click the folder and go to Properties. In the Security tab, make sure the user has required permissions. You can ignore Shared tab. It is not used for FTP access.
Locked account. If you local or domain account is locked or expired, you may end up seeing “User cannot log in” error. Check local user properties or Active Directory user settings to make sure the user account is active.
Other permission issues. The user account may not have “Log on locally” or “Allow only anonymous connections security” rights.
I spent long time looking for a solution, I've tried every shared answer on the internet and nothing could solve the issue. It is an issue I was ignoring for years and I never could fix.
Ok, I've Plesk installed and I'm not sure if it has some effect on IIS FTP to do the following behavior ...
Using Process Monitor tool, and making ftp login request and watching the tool and doing your investigation using this tool, you can get a hint about the REAL reason of the problem.
For me, I found out that IIS FTP was trying to access the ftp folder from a path DIFFERENT than the actual ftp path I've set, I do not know why, but maybe Plesk has some effect on this.
The actual ftp path is
C:\inetpub\vhosts\zidapp
The path that IIS FTP was trying to access DURING the login process is
C:\inetpub\vhosts\Servers\7\localuser\zid_app_ftp_user
I fixed the issue by creating a folder link from 'actual' folder path to the path IIS was trying to access - using the tool mklink tool
CMD command
mklink /d C:\inetpub\vhosts\Servers\7\localuser\zid_app_ftp_user "C:\inetpub\vhosts\zidapp"
I've fixed the issue that way, so wen FTP is trying to access the folder from the wrong path, it is now goes to the correct one.
Please note doing folder shortcut wont work for this, you need a link like linux, not a shortcut ...
I hope it will help you :)
You can check the reference account you are using to log in.
Mine happened to be locked out causing the 530 error.