Generally speaking, on a local development environment I wouldn’t rely on FTP as an update solution. Fortunately your issue isn’t specific to XAMPP or Apache, but rather a question of server permissions in general. This is good news because it means the following WordPress documentation for Automatic Updates may contain some useful information for you. … Read more
My Webhoster has enabled mod_pagespeed by default. I had to turn this off via entering ModPagespeed off in my .htaccess file. Abhik also pointed to this in his comment.
It should be related to folder permissions check the codex here it shows how to set directory permissions: https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
Well once again I posted too soon and figured out the solution shortly after. What worked for me was adding this to my wp-config.php file: define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘ftpsockets’); The above line tries to force WordPress to use the PHP Sockets class when working with the filesystem – updating, installing etc. For security concerns on shared hosting … Read more
May be this is the same problem : Can’t upload media, permissions are correct. At first, change permission (chmod) with filezilla or another ftp client to 755.
You need to set the permissions locally in a UNIX environment: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/wordpress Also perhaps: chown -R nobody:nobody /path/to/wordpress Also try setting the FTP creds in the wp-config.php file: define( ‘FTP_USER’, ‘username’ ); define( ‘FTP_PASS’, ‘password’ ); define( ‘FTP_HOST’, ‘ftp.example.org:21’ ); Use “admin” or “root” for user and leave the password blank.
You’ve got a path problem. When the plugin executes, any reference to a file is relative to the plugin folder. Use developer tools (like Firebug) to see the actual request for the jpg file. You’ll see that it is trying to find the jpg file in the plugin folder. Adjust the path to the files. … Read more
A blank page (‘white screen of death’) is usually caused by a fatal error in the PHP code. Since you said that you updated your theme (although it is not clear whether you personally updated the code, or if the theme was updated by the theme developer), then the problem is most likely in the … Read more
How to handle a lot of media files in the uploads folder? (+10.000)
It is usually either safe and secure or user friendly, very hard to have them both. In this case what you ask means that PHP can write to wordpress folders which means that any bug in a plugin or theme might be escalated to a full control of your site. If you still prefer to … Read more