On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 7:49 PM Bill Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... > Doing a little research, I found that the reason WP sometimes asks for > ftp credentials is that it can't directly write to the plugins > directory. That usually means that it also can't write to any of > wp-content/, which is a problem that will break WP once you start using > it. The simplest fix, if your webserver is running as _www (default for > MacPorts' apache2) and you have WP installed at > /opt/local/www/apache2/html/wordpress/: > > chmod -R _www:admin > /opt/local/www/apache2/html/wordpress/wp-content
I would consider doing that the other way... chmod -R admin:_www. I would also chmod 0750. Apache usually needs read access, not read/write. Other does not need any access. Jeff
