I have root access in ssh to my install (and other wp install working) so im not sure what i missed…
installing plugins through the wp-admin interface, it wants me to input ftp. i remember this from before, a long time ago.
anyway, i tried already various things like chown and chgrp everything to the user.
added user to www-data group
chown’ed to www-data
chmod 755 (even 777 the plugins dir to check!)
nothing works! what did i miss?
yes, of course i just figured it out.
chown = username
chgrp = www-data
in other words: chown -R username:www-data dir_containing_all_wordpress/