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Cannot install themes or plugins on wordpress one click app

Posted on June 13, 2017

Cannot install themes or plugins on wordpress one click app from the dashboard. When I try, the message “Installation failed: Could not create directory” appears.



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This question was answered by @valvarez430:

Followed the advise on this thread Solved my problems changing ownership of my ‘/var/www’ directory with this command

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

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