Tried to install a wordpress plugin on my local machine:
To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials, you should contact your web host.
Hostname 127.0.0.1
FTP Username macusername
FTP Password macusernamepassword
Connection Type Connection Type FTP
When I click proceed, I get this:
Failed to connect to FTP Server 127.0.0.1/:21
Why doesnât WordPress work with my FTP data?
Depending on your version of OS X, you will need to configure and run FTP and open a port in the firewall. It’s best if you google your OS X version – 10.6, 10.7, etc. – specifically and find the docs necessary to set up FTP and Sharing.
You also need to realize the security implications of opening up FTP to your local machine; someone port scanning your IP may be able to find your FTP port.
It’s often easiest – and the best for security – to simply download the plugin and move it into the plugins folder.
Are you using Lion? If so, Apple dropped support for managing the FTP service via the Sharing settings. But the underlying service is still available. You can manually enable it by running this command in the terminal
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist
Then you can stop and start the service like this:
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.ftpd
sudo launchctl start com.apple.ftpd
I would actually recommend that you run Apache as your currently logged in user instead (thus avoiding the FTP requirement completely), since this is your local machine and it’s for development purposes. You just need to modify your httpd.conf file which is located at
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
.Change:
To:
Then just restart Apache by running the command:
sudo apachectl restart
and then enter your password.I was facing this issue. This post helped me. There could be multiple reason:
FS_METHOD
should be“direct” in
wp-config.php
file.wp-config.php
if you aremigrating from
bitnami
to manage it on your own.For me it was bitnami related settings issue.
You could also just unzip the plugin package and paste it in the plugins directory. Then activate the plugin in the plugins area of your wordpress backend.
Is because WordPress is looking for FTP as default
wp-config.php
it will overwrite that and use adirect
method so no need for FTPAdd this to wp-config.php file =>
define( 'FS_METHOD', 'direct' );
Useful article in regards =>
https://warptheme.com/wordpress-tutorials/update-wordpress-directly-without-using-ftp/
Check if your local ftp server has been started
if not start it and try again
Hope this helps, especially for Linux users.
change to the directory of your web server lets say wordpress inside it and run the command
This will do everything and you wont get the error message again