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Wordpress Plugin - Can't Create Directory

Posted on January 3, 2016

Hi All,

I have successfully installed Wordpress on my LAMP server, however, I can’t seem to update plugins. I am getting the following error:

Could not create directory

Additionally, I have already placed the following instruction in the wp-config file:

define('FS_METHOD','direct');

Any ideas?



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after changing ownership restart the server, i have done the same mistake and it costed me 20 minutes

sudo service apache2 restart

Most probably permisison issues. Try : sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/*

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