No more cowboy coding! I’m trying to develop on my local machine, but I’m no Ubuntu expert!
I’ve got it to the point where when I browse to “localhost” in my browser, it pulls up my WordPress install and runs the site. It’s trying to update, and showing this prompt:
So it’s trying to run FTP as what? I’m new to Ubuntu, on my shared Bluehost server space WordPress has no trouble FTPing out. How do I configure this on my local Ubuntu machine so that WordPress can update. It’s a fresh Ubuntu install from ISO disk. Do I need to configure FTP somehow? This is probably a very basic question – I think I’m looking for a few shell commands as the answer.
Here is a way in which you can disable the FTP Credentials for installing Plugins and Themes from backend
Just Add the following Code in wp-config.php