Thanks in advance for your patience and support helping me with this issue. I can normally work around most problems by reading online, but when it comes to linux and ssh I cant – it’s too complex. No two explanations seem the same.
The problem is this:
I launched an EC2 instance using the bitnami wordpress ami (i think its an ami?) and everything works great.
Im super excited about this new wordpress project called VersionPress, link below.
I managed to install git and get a tick in that box. Now I need to satisfy the plugin’s requirements for write permission on several folders.
I’ve been reading up on chmod, and checking out what permission are currently in place using ssh, but can not, for the life of me, make sense of it.
The info on what VersonPress needs is here: http://docs.versionpress.net/en/getting-started/installation-uninstallation
If we take for example the plugins own folder /versionpress, I can navigate to it and see the current permissions using ls:
drwxr-xr-x 7 bitnami bitnami … versionpress
So I’m like ok, I suppose I’d better give group write permissions. But, no version of the chmod command I write will execute and even then, it’s only one of the folders that I need to change.
UPDATE: I added ‘~’ and got chmod working on the /versionpress dir
As a next step I tried to change rights on /wordpress dir. This was initially unsuccessful until I applied command with Sudo.
VersionPress still reports it does not have the correct permissions however.
Error msg: VersionPress needs write access in the site root, its nested directories and the system temp directory. Please update the permissions.
END UPDATE
Anyone experienced this, got VersionPres up and running on EC2 or with any advice to move me forward?
Thanks.
