Posix is a PHP extension rather than part of PHP core. WordPress tries to minimize use of extensions as much as possible in its core. In specific case of Posix one — it has very notable flaw of not being available on Windows platform altogether.
define( ‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’ ); solved it.
You can use the WP CLI too to rename your site’s hostname safely and effectively. There’s a chance that your layout is being messed up because naively replacing the domain name with a simple string replace, e.g. perl -pi -e ‘s/oldhost/newhost/g’ backup.sql, will not take into account things like serialized data. Try this on your … Read more
No, there’s no simple connection between your WordPress and FTP access and access to your hosting, whether you mean either shell access to the EC2 instance or access to the AWS dashboard. Even if your FTP account is a real Linux user account, EC2 instances won’t accept password SSH logins by default. You do have … Read more
After changing FTP_BASE in my wp-config i found the update function of WP broken. Then i realize the update function work the same way and don’t need any additional settings. In wp-admin/includes/update-core.php i found the usage of $wp_filesystem->wp_content_dir(). This solves my problem too. On http://xref.wordpress.org/branches/3.8/WordPress/Filesystem/WP_Filesystem_Base.html you will find a list of possible useful functions: string … Read more
if you do not want to (or you cannot) change permissions on wp-content so your web server has write permissions, then add this to your wp-config.php file: define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’);
define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘ftpext’); define(‘FTP_BASE’, ‘/path/to/wordpress/’); define(‘FTP_CONTENT_DIR’, ‘/path/to/wordpress/wp-content/’); define(‘FTP_PLUGIN_DIR ‘, ‘/path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/’); define(‘FTP_PUBKEY’, ‘/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub’); define(‘FTP_PRIKEY’, ‘/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa’); define(‘FTP_USER’, ‘username’); define(‘FTP_PASS’, ‘password’); define(‘FTP_HOST’, ‘ftp.example.org’); define(‘FTP_SSL’, false); http://digwp.com/2010/11/ftp-in-wpconfig/
Parts of WordPress use (s)FTP to transfer files. Updates, for example, use (s)FTP. Media uploads do not, at least not unless something has changed in 3.7. If you are connecting to an (s)FTP server you have to provide the credentials that that server needs. Your file permissions won’t come into play until after that connection … Read more
Here are a couple of options: WP htaccess Control – will let you manually edit your .htaccess file All-in-one htaccess Plugin – will let you dynamically create an .htaccess file based on which modules/features you want set up When all else fails, turn to Google …
Okay, this may sound crazy, but have you tried absolute directory refs, i.e. /var/www/public_html/ for FTP_BASE? It does say in the codex: FTP_BASE is the full path to the “base”(ABSPATH) folder of the WordPress installation.