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why i can't install a new plugin on my wordpress?

Posted on December 30, 2014

I can connect my vps ip with putty ,hostname is a.b.c.d , ftp user is root ,password is password . None of connection type (ftp or ftps) can add a new plugin .

Failed to connect to FTP Server
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To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials, you should contact your web host.

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It’s awsome! I was trying to do this for two days! hahaha

On Centos running Apache to serve you can do like above but for the apache user

sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html

hope this helps someone

Use sudo. It works for me. (Windows) sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/

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