Failed: Filesystem preventing downloads. ( ftpext)
Just add this line in your wp-config.php: define( ‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’ );
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How to cause the WordPress web interface to update via FTP
The problem with WordPress not being able to install plugins or update itself is because WordPress uses the Apache ‘user’ for all its processes. In the case of Ubuntu / Linux the Apache user and group is www-data:www-data. By doing sudo chown www-data:www-data /wordpress your changing the ownership of all files. A problem can occur … Read more
Using dashboard uploader instead of FTP
If you’re on a shared server, it’s unlikely your host will correct this issue, but you can add the upgrade constants to your wp-config file so it will at least stop asking every time.
Storing FTP details in wp-config.php
I would consider it somewhat safe since that’s where your database connection information is also stored. One could easily ruin your website by deleting your whole database if they had access to that file. There are a couple of things you can do to increase security: Move the wp-config file one level outside the root. … Read more
Clean installation missing its /wp-content folder
I kept on searching, and finally found something that fixed this issue. For those who are using CentOs 7 in combination with Plesk 12: The issue is with SELinux. When it’s used in Enforcing mode (which is the default), wp-content does not show itself via FTP. Switching it to Permissive mode or disabling SELinux altogether … Read more
WordPress Installed But Not Showing Up! [closed]
Clear your browser cache or use another browser to load the site, this may be a cache issue.
How can I deploy my InstantWP site to a live website?
Hopefully I can be of a little help. Taking a look at the InstandWP website, it appears to be an install version of WordPress that installs into a directory, and then contains all settings etc for the site to run in a local environment. I am not sure on the file structure of InstantWP, so … Read more
Moving wordpress site from localhost to live server using GoDaddy cPanel
The issue was the file path. I moved all of my localhost files from the subfolder into the main public_html folder. I moved a couple of existing files – home.html/404.shtml/layout.css into a sub folder and the site now works.
failed to open stream: Permission denied for WordPress plugin
All files should be owned by the actual user’s account, not the user account used for the httpd process. Group ownership is irrelevant unless there are specific group requirements for the web-server process permissions checking. This is not usually the case. All directories should be 755 or 750. All files should be 644 or 640. … Read more
FTP Widget Location
Try looking in the {$prefix}_options table in the WordPress MySQL database