There is a difference between WordPress files you upload on your FTP, and WordPress “content” that is stored in your database. For your content to be updated, you have to migrate your WordPress database online. Resources: This link explains how you can migrate your WordPress website entirely https://www.wpexplorer.com/migrating-wordpress-website/ For example, has stated by @WebElaine, you … Read more
Starting with version 4.9 OpenSSH (not available in centos 5.x but ChrootDirectory feature was backported) has an internal-sftp subsystem: Subsystem sftp internal-sftp And then block other uses: Match group sftponly ChrootDirectory /upload/%u X11Forwarding no AllowTcpForwarding no AllowAgentForwarding no ForceCommand internal-sftp Add your users to the sftponly group. The chroot directory must be owned by root, … Read more
Try -m for –mirror wget -m ftp://username:[email protected]
You don’t. rsync can’t do that for you, it is a protocol of its own and doesn’t work over FTP. You might, however, want to try csync. IIRC it provides rsync-like behaviour over HTTP. I can’t comment on whether it works over FTP, you’ll have to try it.
The browser doesn’t connect via FTP. The server connects to itself. WordPress does this when it doesn’t have sufficient filesystem permissions to do the update itself. This is outlined in the Updating WordPress article in the Codex. WordPress determines what method it will use to connect to the filesystem of your server based on the … Read more
Not quite right. WordPress only requests FTP credentials if it cannot modify files. That’s the important bit from Rarst’s reply. This all comes down to who owns the files and does php (and WordPress) have access via either the group and/or user to modify these files? The default is to use php’s filesystem extension which … Read more
After two days of head banging, found out it’s the SELinux giving me the issues. Usually i got a message from it saying what and why was blocked, provided with a command to enable the action that SELinux was preventing. Like when apache wasn’t able to write logs to my virtual host folder… This time … Read more
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
You have to add the following Line before /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */ in wp-config.php file. define( ‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’ );
Problem solved. Incorrect wordpress file permissions. Reset all wordpress files with sudo chown -R www-data:username wordpress sudo chmod 755 -R wordpress and the problem disappeared.