Can't Install Or Update Wordpress Plugins

Question

I’ve checked around the web quite a bit for a solution to this, but despite a lot of people having the issue, as well as there being answers, nothing seems to work for me. For whatever reason, I can’t install, or update plugins. When I attempt to, I’m met with an ftp login on the Wordpress page, which from my understanding means that my persmission or owner is wrong.

I’ve tried:

-Setting my settings on wp-content to 777 (temporarily of course) -sudo chown -R myuser:www-data /var/www/anightinburlington.com/public_html/*

Neither of those worked, and I’m not sure what’s wrong. I’ll be here all day, speakers loud, email notifications ready - if anyone could help, I’d be more than thankful!

paulbroomfield · Answer

Hi there, Hopefully this isn’t still and issue for you, but I recently came across the same problem… In my case my permissions where correct. The fix for me is to add a line into wp-config.php, adding the following fixed it all.define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’); Hope that helps someone in the future.

Ramanan Sharma · Answer

According to your tag I think you’re using nginx as webserver. Did you try the following ? sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/anightinburlington.com/public_html/

Matt Porter · Answer

So I read up on the situation more, and I indeed had more steps to take. I had to add my new wp-user to the list of ssh users in the config (done), and had to change the port in wp-config to my new port (done). Despite reading every single comment on the page, restarting nginx php5-fpm, and ssh, I still get the error that the keys are inccorect: Public and Private keys incorrect for wp-user The only thing I can think of, is that I got the below error when creating my new user, and setting an empty password: authentication token manipulation error The “user” I created is just wp-user, does this user need to be the same name as the user I log into wordpress with? (this wasn’t specified anywhere in the tutorial) Is that normal when you create a user and don’t assign a password? I’m completely stumped at this point, and am at a dead end - any ideas?

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