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Wordpress asking for FTP info to install theme, but I have ssl passphrase.

Posted on August 3, 2013

I installed Wordpress on my droplet, and I want to install another theme and some plugins, but Wordpress is asking for FTP credentials. But I am using vsftpd and ssl to login with passphrase.

So what should I specify for the hostname? Should this be the ip address, or should it be mysite.com?

If I am using vsftpd and ssl with passphrase, what should I provide for the username and password?

Wordpress seems very difficult to setup on a droplet, but maybe its just me.

Thanks in advance.



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sudo adduser <username> www-data sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www sudo chmod -R g+rw /var/www

its worked for me

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

A little late to the game, but just chmod your upload folder to 777

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