Secure updates with wordpress problem

Posted July 9, 2014

I have been struggling to get the updates working in Wordpress. I have a Wordpress install from rocketthemes.com and I unpacked it and it is working great. But when I go to update after following this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-secure-updates-and-installations-in-wordpress-on-ubuntu I cannot update or add new themes. I have went through all the comments and the tutorial several times and I am stumped. I used the same custom port that I set up in the beginning. I am using the LAMP set-up and have my root files at /var/www/html. If anyone can help, let me know what more info I can provide to help you assess the problem. Thanks to anyone who can help.

eliseo.allen

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Andrew SB • July 15, 2014

Hi!

The first thing I would check is that both your WordPress user and the www-data group are able to access the uploads folder. Run:

sudo chown -R wp-user:www-data /var/www/html/wp-content/uploads

If that doesn’t resolve the issue, check for any error messages in your Apache logs right after trying to install a theme. Run:

tail /var/log/apache2/error.log