By thinkswan
I’m having trouble finding the correct permissions for running a WordPress site on my droplet. I followed this guide to configure the site: How To Configure Secure Updates and Installations in WordPress on Ubuntu
Configuration is as follows:
- Ubuntu 14.04, nginx 1.4.6
- nginx user is
www-data /var/www/*is owned bywp-user:wp-user- Directories are set to
755and files to644(WordPress docs)
Secure updates and theme/plugin installations work as expected, but I receive the following error when attempting to upload new media through the web interface: Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2014/11. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
Any thoughts on how I can configure owners/permissions to allow this (while maintaining security)?
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Updating the user/group for the php5-fpm process solved this.
In /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf, I updated the user/group lines as follows:
user = wp-user
group = wp-user
Then I restarted the service: sudo service php5-fpm restart
Thanks to masegaloeh over at Server Fault for the helpful comment!
This had been driving me nuts for months! I got all kinds of crazy responses to my cries for help, but none of them did the trick until this.
hello, my wordpres folder dosen’t apper and i give the right acces, if i move a website in the folder html it works … why ?
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