By shanelharder
I get this Nginx related error when installing W3 Total Cache Plugin:
FTP credentials don’t allow to write to file /var/www/nginx.conf
W3 Total Cache Error: Files and directories could not be automatically created to complete the installation.
Please execute commands manually
BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache
gzip on; gzip_types text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon;
END W3TC Browser Cache
I don’t mind executing the commands manually but the nginx.conf file is not located where W3TC thinks it should be. The file is located at /etc/nginx/nginx.conf. but when I try to copy and paste it in the directory W3TC wants it to be in, I get errors from filezilla saying “open for write: Permission Denied.” so the file refuses to copy to the directory W3 Total Cache wants to make it work.
Any help is very welcome.
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How about changing the permissions for the folder just to paste the appropriate file then changing the permissions back to when you are finished? <br>I got Nginx working well with W3TC (also tried with WP Super Cache) and i must say it works wonderfully on a 512MB droplet. <br>I used the ‘easyengine’ script which automated the setup of WP, Nginx and caching methods.
W3TC writes/creates to an nginx file in the website root, not your main nginx server config file. <br> <br>The error is that your website doesn’t have permissions to create this file. <br> <br>If the website folder is owned by the user the site is running as, it would be able to write to it. You can do this by using sockets. <br> <br>( fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm/DOMAINNAME.socket;)
Thanks guys!! I ended up getting it working by copying the nginx.conf file to the new directory under var/www and then adding the new code it asked for. <br> <br>My problem was that I was logging into filezilla with my user profile instead of with root access. I thought I had given myself root privileges but I guess not. <br> <br>Thanks again!!
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