If, on your wp-content/uploads directory, 755 doesn’t work, but 775 does it means that the group example.com already contains the ‘php user id’, so you don’t need to do anything else. More specifically, the web server process (like apache or nginx) both serves your files and runs PHP, so ‘php user id’ really means (is … Read more
It appears to be a typo corrected by SergeyBiryukov in the Github Repo for 5.6 : https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/a5edb2a8a15697440dff359fac53c27dd2067db3
Serve contents from Nextcloud / WebDAV
Save media files (images) to database instead of the filesystem
How to prevent users to view server files using WP File Manager plugin?
WordPress installation on digitalocean eating the server storage
Uploaded images result in a file url with full path on disk appended
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Plugins that load the WordPress environment this way get rejected from the repository, as they are prone to failure in non-standard configurations. For something like this I would use the admin-post-$action to receive requests. The WordPress API will be available where you can check if users are authorized to perform specific actions.
WordPress can’t write files directly most probably because user which runs PHP interpreter don’t have permission to write. Correct answer depends on what is your environment – if you are on shared hosting probably you can’t do anything about it and the only option is to set FTP credentials on wp-config.php so you won’t need … Read more