Per the recommended Hardening WordPress and other resources this is what you should look for in your folder permissions: Root Directory / 0755 .htaccess /.htaccess 0644 wp-admin/index.php /wp-admin/index.php 0644 Based on what you’ve described about having to enter your FTP credentials to update/upload plugins I believe you have a ownership/group issue with your files. When … Read more
i deactivated all the plugins and reactivated them back again, just to find out than one of those was currupted / outdated. now everything works fine again.
I solved this for myself. The reason i got this error was because i have added a custom menu in bootstrap.php and it was in conflict with the permissions. I just removed the unwanted menu item and the error was no more. to be more clear, I have a custom menu in my bootstrap.php like … Read more
sufficient permissions to access this page
Sometimes an owner/group mismatch in just one of the directories or subdirectories of your install can be enough to make WP_Filesystem see that the permissions don’t match and ask for your FTP details instead. eg. I have had this when copying/installing a plugin as root user via SSH, forgot about setting the owner/group, and then … Read more
So I contacted DigitalOcean who told me to do the following which solved my issue: We recommend removing the changes you made to wp-config.php to start. Once done, please try issuing this command: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data wordpress Just change ‘wordpress’ to the directory of WordPress installation, and see if that works to waive the … Read more
Pages displays as Restricted to Admin
You need to delete file index.html. Once that is gone, index.php will work and WP will load.
I have put the following code in index.php file. It’s working fine as I was looking. define(‘WP_USERNAME’, ‘PassW0rd$2017’); $error_msg = ”; $status = session_status(); if (PHP_SESSION_DISABLED === $status) { // That’s why you cannot rely on sessions! // return; } if (PHP_SESSION_NONE === $status) { session_start(); } if (isset($_SESSION[‘user_name’]) && $_SESSION[‘user_name’] != ” && $_SESSION[‘user_name’] … Read more
Why do some of my directories need to be writeable that shouldn’t be?