On 31 Jul 2020, at 20:28, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
I’ve installed the MacPorts version of apache2 and have a working
localhost wordpress site running under apache2.
How to I enable ftp with this, so that I can ftp into the wordpress
site? (This is so I can install WordPress plugins.)
If it's running on 'localhost' then you don't need FTP, you can just
copy the plugins' files to the WordPress tree
(/opt/local/www/apache2/html/ or a subdirectory of that, depending on
how you installed WordPress) directly. You may need to adjust ownership
and/or permissions on that directory or use 'sudo cp' in a Terminal
session to do the copying. WP plugins typically install in their own
subdirectory trees under the 'plugins' subdirectory of the WordPress
root.
Is there some particular MacPorts port I need to add? and then what do
I need to do so it’s available from within the wordpress site?
(WordPress docs don’t deal with this! they just say to use ftp to
install the plugins.)
Which is unfortunate, because FTP is a mess security-wise. While one CAN
make it reasonably safe, doing so narrows the range of clients that work
with any particular secure setup. If you end up with a WordPress site
running on a remote system where you need a file transfer facility, you
are better off using SFTP, which provides a FTP-like client interface
without the backend that has been evolving organically since the `70s.
SFTP is a subsystem of OpenSSH, so nearly any modern
Unix/Linux/BSD/MacOS server that allows remote login supports SFTP by
default.
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