Hi I set up wordpress on a VPS and I’m running into two problems:
- Either WordPress asks for ftp details in order to update plugins or delete them
or
- Through FTP I cannot delete files as I get a permission denied error.
Problem 1 is solved by running:
sudo chown -R www-data public_html
Problem 2 is solved by running:
sudo chown -R myusername public_html
Solving one problem creates the other apparently. I want to be able to login with my user to ftp and modify anything, while I also want wordpress to be able to update plugins and such things. Am I doing something wrong?
you can run something like
sudo chown -R myusername:www-data public_htmlit will solve both the problems together
chown www-data:www-data public_html/ -ROn Ubuntu and Debian apache & php run as the www-data user and www-data group so any files that php needs to be able to write to have to be owned by the user and group.
Try setting the sticky bit on your permissions