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Posted by Bryan Wiedeman
Bryan Wiedeman
10,203 Points

Ubuntu: when I go to install the smtp plugin, it asks for ftp settings

I just have it installed locally and am not ready to pay for hosting quite yet, how can I install plugins without providing hosting info

Bryan Wiedeman
Bryan Wiedeman
10,203 Points

i tried giving the user that's accessing it, www-data, permissions to access the wordpress folder, and that didn't work, then i tried adding define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

to wp-config.php . Then it doesn't ask me for ftp permissions anymore, but it does say

Downloading install package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/easy-wp-smtp.zip…

Unpacking the package…

Could not create directory.

Return to Plugin Installer

1 Answer

Bryan Wiedeman
Bryan Wiedeman
10,203 Points

ok i figured it out myself. i had to go to /etc/wordpress/config-localhost.php and change one line to

define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/');

because it had the wrong path for my wp-content folder