Unable to install WordPress plugins

Posted June 23, 2015
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I followed this example to set up my wordpress instance.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04

I am unable to install/ update plugins through the WordPress Admin UI. It keeps asking me for the FTP username/ password, and even after I enter those information, the files are still not installed.

I can upload files through the Media however, so it doesn’t seem like a file permissions issues to me.

Does anyone know what are some possible solutions I can try?

tridnguyen

Aidhan Dossel • June 23, 2015

After running chown, you’ll probably need to add define('FS_METHOD', 'direct'); to wp-config.php to force it to stop using FTP.

Adam Robertson • June 23, 2015

try this:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

Adam Robertson • June 23, 2015

try this:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

Adam Robertson • June 23, 2015

try this:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

myshinichi • March 18, 2017

Hi,

My WP website is running on docker container. How to fix the problem above ?

Thanks !

tridnguyen • June 26, 2015

Thanks. Using define('FS_METHOD', 'direct'); did stop the FTP pop-up, but it seems like the file changes didn’t stick.

I’d update a plugin, and the UI says it’s updated. Upon refreshing the page, the plugin goes back to the original version before the update. What gives?

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jaspreet singh • May 28, 2018

Use this code , wordpress asking for ftp details because wordpress doesn’t have permission to write in your server. use these two commands in terminal.

$sudo a2enmod rewrite $sudo chown -R www-data /var/www

video guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGGWVUIvhnk

Ryan Quinn • June 24, 2016

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