By ethan
On hosts where I didn’t have the control over the server that I have now, I could update Wordpress’ core, plugins, themes and the like from Wordpress’ back end. Now, running multiple sites on virtual servers, if I try to update something, I get the following prompt:
<b>To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed.</b> Under that are boxes for the Hostname, FTP User, and FTP Password, and then radio buttons for FTP or FTP (SSL).
I’ve tried the IP address of my server, the name of my server, ‘localhost’, and the domain name of the site I’m trying to update - none of which work. I’m able to log in to FTP (SSL) with Cyberduck with user/password when pointing to the server’s IP, but it seems Wordpress doesn’t know what to do with that.
Could someone help me fix this problem?
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