Question
Wordpress prompting for FTP credentials - Ubuntu 14.04 / LAMP configuration
I followed the Digital Ocean tutorial for configuring secure updates for Wordpress using SSH keys and I am still being prompted for the FTP information when I try to install at new theme.
In the wp-config.php
file I added:
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
define('FTP_PUBKEY','/home/wp-user/.ssh/wp_rsa.pub');
define('FTP_PRIKEY','/home/wp-user/.ssh/wp_rsa');
define('FTP_USER','wp-user');
define('FTP_PASS','wp-pass');
define('FTP_HOST','127.0.0.1:22');
Where wp-user
and wp-pass
have been replaced by the appropriate user name and password. The FS_METHOD
line wasn’t in the tutorial, but something I saw suggested for related problems, e.g. here and here.
The permissions on the files are:
-rw-r--r-- 1 wp-user wp-user 755 Jul 16 21:03 authorized_keys
-rw-r----- 1 wp-user www-data 3326 Jul 16 20:57 wp_rsa
-rw-r----- 1 wp-user wp-user 738 Jul 16 21:00 wp_rsa.pub
The permissions on the ~/.ssh
, var/www
, :
drwx------ 2 wp-user wp-user 4096 Jul 16 21:03 .ssh
...
drwxrwxr-x 3 wp-user www-data 4096 Jul 13 13:51 www
I also prepended the RSA information in the authorized_keys
file with from="127.0.0.1"
and restarted apache with sudo service apache2 restart
more times than I care to admit.
Is there anything else I should be doing?
Thank you!
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sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpressfolder
There was no initially change - even after restarting the service again. I have
~/wordpress
as my Wordpress directory rather than/var/www
, so initially I ran the command on~/wordpress
.Just now
/var/www
instead and THAT worked :DThank you!