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wordpress wants ftp information to update plugins

January 30th, 2009 by Lawrence David

if you get these errors when trying to have wordpress automatically update your plugins:

“To perform the requested action, connection information is required”

“Failed to connect to FTP Server“

try making sure that your webserver owns your wordpress directory. i fixed everything by going to the root of my wordpress directory and entering:

/home/wordpress/> sudo chown -R www-data:www-data *

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19 Responses to “wordpress wants ftp information to update plugins”

1. on 31 Jan 2009 at 9:52 am   alfredo

   this works as long as you are in a Debian or Debian based installation.

   The “webserver” user for Debian based distros is “www-data”

   But for CentOS / RedHat / Fedora, the user is: “apache”

   It is useful to note that it may vary.

2. on 21 Jun 2009 at 10:40 am   surlyjake

   Thanks.
   if you run something other than debian, take a look at ‘top’ while apache is running to see what user account it uses.

3. on 10 Feb 2010 at 7:10 am   Stephen

   On MacOS X the user is _www.

4. on 04 Apr 2010 at 9:09 am   Alinn

   Great! My problem is solved.
   Thanks a lot

5. on 18 Jun 2010 at 8:58 am   allenm

   Thanks a ton. I wish the docs/forums at wordpress.org had this information.

6. on 27 Jul 2010 at 2:54 am   Jared

   Be aware that while this method does make WP auto updates work, it can open a can of worms that will cause you frustration and possible security risks down the road.

   There is a great article at nerdgrind.com that shows you a better way and illustrates the security risks you will find with other methods.

   http://www.nerdgrind.com/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin-failed-or-not-working/

7. on 18 Sep 2010 at 5:13 am   Eric

   http://www.nerdgrind.com/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin-failed-or-not-working/

8. on 19 Feb 2011 at 8:08 am   Internet Marketing For MLM

   This nerdgrind link is brilliant – much more useful than the wordpress forum. Just wish I found it first!

   WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin Failed or Not Working

9. on 17 Jun 2011 at 6:35 pm   Great

   Wonderful go through because I was unsure what to do and just found my personal remedy

10. on 30 Jan 2012 at 10:07 am   Jarwain

    FUCK YES
    Thank you so much alfredo. Your tip finally made it work. :3
    Now I gotta go restore default permissions somehow…

11. on 26 Feb 2012 at 11:22 pm   Edwin

    Thank you. It works like a charm on Ubuntu 11.10

12. on 11 Jul 2012 at 5:29 am   ARPIT VIJAY

    solution

    download ftp client to import files directly to your server in wordpress directory

    you can download from here

    http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/filezilla/FileZilla_Client/3.5.3/FileZilla_3.5.3_win32.zip

    there must be two things you want to import either themes or plugins

    there are spesfic directories for both the things

    wp-content/themes
    wp-content/plugins

    download and extract your plugin or theme which you want to install to your computer and simply drag and drop in the folders wp-content/themes and wp-content/plugins

    you just need access these folders through filezilla by providing your ftp information

    all done .

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    https://www.facebook.com/ITfoster

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