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Posted by Dávid Molnár
Dávid Molnár
27,081 Points

Wordpress Plugin / theme installation issue | File permission

Hey Everyone!
I've installed Wordpress locally on Linux Mint using XAMPP . The installation was successful, unfortunately it asked for FTP credentials when I tried to install a theme or a plugin. I fixed the issue by writing: "define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');" in the config file. When I tried to install a plugin again it let me without asking for FTP credentials, but threw an error: "unable to create directory". I changed the file permisson in the wp-content folder from 755 to 777 so it's working now but as i know it's a huge security issue and as a user 755 should work perfectly.. Any idea what could be the source of this problem? I'm out of ideas...
Thank you in advance!

1 Answer

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

I don't work with windows, but if you wanted you can add a conditional statement for if is_admin(): 

if ( is_admin() ) { 
     define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
}

Outside of this not sure what else you can do.

Dávid Molnár
Dávid Molnár
27,081 Points

I also wanted to change from windows to Linux Mint, it happend in Linux distribution and I fixed the problem. But as I wrote: define('FS_METHOD', 'direct'); wasn't enough. I also needed to change the permission to 777 from 755 that never should happen normally. I'd just like to know the cause of this.

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

The only thing I can think of is the permissions on your own computer. Outside of that I'm not sure, first time, I've seen this issue.