[wp-hackers] Installing themes, plugins without FTP credentials

[Barry Carlyon]

Its because the Filesystem class, checks to see if it can write to WordPress root, not the folder its about to write stuff too :-(

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On 23 Mar 2011, at 18:33, Scot Hacker wrote:

> From all the reading I've done, WP's themes and plugins installers will either:
> 
> 1) Work without FTP credentials if the directories are writable by the web server process
> or
> 2) Prompt for FTP credentials
> 
> On my server, apache runs as nobody. So:
> 
> chown -R nobody:nobody wp-content/themes
> chmod g+w wp-content/themes
> 
> Still prompts for FTP credentials. For testing, I open it up all the way (which I don't like to do):
> 
> drwxrwxrwx   6 nobody  nobody 4096 Mar 21 12:00 themes/
> 
> but it still doesn't work. Making sure the installer scripts themselves are owned by nobody:
> 
> # ls -l wp-admin/theme-install.php 
> -rw-r--r--  1 nobody nobody 3355 Feb 25 13:27 wp-admin/theme-install.php
> 
> So... why do I still get prompted for FTP credentials? Using WP 3.1.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scot
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