Comments on: Why WordPress Asks for Connection Info

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:42:20 +0000

I am not a programmer, but administer my client’s WP blog. I want to add a plug in, but not I’m getting the connection info questions. No problem. But it no longer works — and it used to. What would have changed? The password that gets me into the Dashboard will not work on the Connection Info page. Why? I have neither the skill nor the patience to delve deeply into the ftp files. Is there another password I don ‘t know about?

I run a PC laptop with Bus Vista. I did have a hard drive crash and needed fresh install or Vista. Could that have changed who WP believes is trying to do an plugin install, hence, it no longer works with the correct password?

I am baffled. HELP!!!

Gary gtmedley at gmail dot com

By: Luca

Luca — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:58:31 +0000

Thanks a lot, you are a real genious, I was to become crazy about updating plugins. Now all is working fine and that just changing the user…
Thanks for it! :)

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By: Ubuntu Linux, Permissions and a Local WordPress Install | Jason G. Designs

Ubuntu Linux, Permissions and a Local WordPress Install | Jason G. Designs — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:31:48 +0000

[...] After locally installing WordPress in Ubuntu Linux 11.10, I was asked to provide an FTP hostname, username and password. The issue was that I was not using ftp on a local install, therefore I probably did not know what to input in those fields. I tried every password and username combination I could think of: my WordPress admin username/password, my Ubuntu account’s username/password. None of these worked. This is because Apache does not have permissions to write to the wp-content directory. Luckily, I applied the information found in the article Why WordPress Asks for Connection Info. [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:14:08 +0000

Thanks. Change ownership on my local dev server www files. Works great.

By: Natural SEO

Natural SEO — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:21:45 +0000

it is really nice post.but i cannot solve it.thanks for sharing

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By: Ivan Savov

Ivan Savov — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:10:55 +0000

Thanks for the detailed research!
I commented out the line “”" if ( getmyuid() == fileowner($temp_file) )”"” and now it skips that check… i guess that makes my site vulnerable now, but hey — rather have that than interrupt my sysadmin friend.

By: Christopher Ryan

Christopher Ryan — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:54:19 +0000

I’ve spent the last 3 hours debugging various server issues, this one being the most recent – thank you for a quick-fix. The PHP file was the missing component, BTW. I found the overall “fix” very quickly but had no idea what user needed ownership rights. = )