By rick741284
I followed the instructions for setting up SSH to the letter, even using the same username as wp-user.
When I try to install a plugin, it comes up with “Public and Private keys incorrect for wp-user”
I generated the key pair several times. Same problem!
When it didn’t work after several regens, I decided to generate my own using puTTY and then uploaded it to the /home/wp-user directory as wp_rsa, wp_rsa.pub.
In the Wordpress Connection Information page, it shows the following:
Hostname 127.0.0.1:22
FTP/SSH Username wp-user
FTP/SSH Password … (I did not give wp-user a password as instructed not to)
Authentication Keys
Public Key: /home/wp-user/wp_rsa.pub
Private Key: /home/wp-user/wp_rsa
Connection Type SSH2
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I’ve been at this from morning to now evening. Frustrating.
Anyone have any idea why this isn’t working? TIA.
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As mentioned, setting the entire wordpress path to www-data:www-data is insecure. At the minimum, you can get this to work by just setting wp-admin/includes/file.php permissions to www-data:www-data
This question was answered by @rick741284:
SOLVED!!!
I’m posting this here so that if someone else has this frustrating problem this might solve it.
Here is what I found:
Try to give www-data permission in wordpress directory:
cd /yourwordpress_dir/ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data *
In my case, I had to cd /var/www/html and then sudo chown -R www-data:www-data *
:-)
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