By tridnguyen
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?
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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
This question was answered by @UKn0Me:
After running
chown, you’ll probably need to adddefine('FS_METHOD', 'direct');to wp-config.php to force it to stop using FTP.
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