Can't Install Or Update Wordpress Plugins

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.

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/

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?