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Installing directly from Wordpress

  • Posted December 17, 2014

Hi,

I have my wordpress website setup. I want to install a plugin directly from the site, however it is giving me issues saying it can’t create the directory, probably because of permissions issues? I am aware i could install it manually, but i’d like to get this setup where i can install it securely. I assume if i change it to 777 it will be insecure. Can someone tell me the solution.

thanks.

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Adam Robertson • December 17, 2014
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

should do the trick. You may want to add your user to the www-data group so you can edit stuff when you sftp in:

sudo usermod -aG www-data $USER
Raul Cruz • December 17, 2014

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KHAN • December 17, 2014

@aguilar1181. I know why i dont want 777 permissions that was not my question. So the only solution is to change it to 777 when u want to install something then change it back?

Raul Cruz • December 17, 2014

You never want to have folder permissions to 777 that’s how you get hack.The recommend it wordpress permissions for folders is 755 while files should be 644.