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having a problem with installing theme and Updates and in WordPress on Ubuntu

Posted on June 8, 2014

hi when i try to install them i get this : Connection Information

To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP or SSH credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials, you should contact your web host.
*and when i try to Upload Theme i get this: The uploaded file could not be moved to wp-content/uploads/2014/06



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If you are on Ubuntu 14.04 and followed the article you linked correctly, Wordpress is installed under /var/www/html/ So you’d run:

<pre> cd /var/www/html/wp-content </pre>

You’ll also want to make sure that the www-data user can access the theme folder:

<pre> sudo chown -R :www-data /var/www/html/wp-content/themes </pre>

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