Comments on: Why WordPress Asks for Connection Info

By: Harald

Harald — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:29:12 +0000

I've been searching around for an explanation of the auto installer of wordpress. Mine was failing without giving me an error message. Thanks for this handy little guide, it pointed me again to the file permissions and I figured out a way to get it to work.

By: Brenden

Brenden — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:25:03 +0000

why can't you just 777 the permissions? I had to change the owner to the apache user. Even changing the group to the apache user wouldn't work. IIRC there was a manual check in the PHP code that makes sure that only the server user can mess with files. Is that right? (and if so why!!? Lame).

By: Mark Cholerton

Mark Cholerton — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:45:29 +0000

Hi,

I'll be honest I'm a noob and am experiencing this very problem. I'm also using a Mac with XAMPP. The explanation looks great, but I'm having problems with the solution. When you say:

create a test script with the following content:

how do i do this? just drop that into notepad and save the file as .php? - but then what do i do with that file? how do i "run" it?

When you say:

you could use the following commands on your WordPress installation directory:

# chown -R httpd: wordpress

Do you mean there is some kind of file within the wordpress folder that I need to edit with that command? If so is it just a case of editing, saving and closing that file and then refreshing my browser?

Sorry as you can see i'm no techy :(

Any help would be much appreciated!

Cheers.

By: Jaffer Haider

Jaffer Haider — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:21:27 +0000

Thanks for the post! It helped me understand what the heck was causing this problem with my blog :)

By: יחסי ציבור

יחסי ציבור — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:54:04 +0000

Awesome! finally solved a month's long issue

By: Onno Zweers

Onno Zweers — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:19:58 +0000

Thanks Chris for this article, and thanks Johan who provided this solution that made it work on Ubuntu Lucid:

define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

With this set in wp-config.php, WordPress just skips the ownership check and goes ahead writing files. The ownerships were already sufficient. This was just that tiny missing piece of the puzzle.

By: Gabriel K

Gabriel K — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:52:43 +0000

You rock, saved me a lot of time figuring all that out when all I wanted to do was have WP auto-install updates on my dev install!

By: Michael Lueck

Michael Lueck — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:13:44 +0000

Thanks for posting this blog entry. This solved the trouble in our case. We are trying to run with a umask of 002 though the VM environment of the production web server can not support ACL's and the original intent was to use an ACL to effectively flip the umask of the /srv/www subtree.

In our case, DIR's are all 775, normal files are 664, and myid:www-data which Apache runs as www-data. That was not good enough for WordPress... WP insists on owning the files... "so be it". My ID is in the www-data group, so that works.

By: Plain & Simple

Plain & Simple — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:16:18 +0000

Thanks! Been looking for this for ages!
Works fine on a shared host install with their installer but not on my dedicated server. :)

By: Blogopogo Team

Blogopogo Team — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:18:02 +0000

Wow! this worked like a charm. The connection info message was starting to get so annnnnoying