ty dion, i suspected i need to give it an account that has access to that folder.
my speculation is that i should create a user or group that has access to that folder to avoid reducing permissions needed to write to them. on a somewhat unrelated note i have changed wordpress address (uri): location to something strange such that i cannot get the login screen anymore. can you or anyone tell me where that string is stored so that i can change it back to a reasonable setting? its not in wp-config.php or wp-settings.php. i am trying to remember how to grep it. thank you. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <[email protected]>wrote: > It depends on the exact server configuration, You need to provide WordPress > with FTP credentials which can access the specified location. > > If the admin account you've given does not have access to that folder, > you're out of luck, you'll need to give it an account which it can find the > files with. > > In the event that it's just failing to locate the folder there are some > defines you can define to force WP to use a certain directory: > > Eg: > > define('FTP_BASE', '/usr/share/wordpress/'); > define('FTP_CONTENT_DIR', FTP_BASE . 'wp-content/'); > define('FTP_PLUGIN_DIR', FTP_CONTENT_DIR . 'plugins/'); > > (Note: I'm not sure if they should have a trailing slash or not, I dont > think they should, If it expects slashed, and you define it unslashed, it'll > just not work.) > > > On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:07:42 +1000, alonzo fretwell < > [email protected]> wrote: > > hi, >> >> i am trying to install a plugin but i get the following error message... >> "Unable to locate WordPress Content directory (wp-content)." >> >> i can install them by hand okay but obviously i want them to be handled by >> the admin panel. >> >> to fix this problem i think i need to create a wordpress user with the >> home >> folder set to /usr/share/wordpress because other wise it logs into the >> servers admin account which is in /home/admin and can't find wp-content >> because its in /usr/share/wordpress. >> >> otherwise i think a co-solution is to change the location of where wp >> thinks >> it is as a result of the standard 5min instructions which would be >> /var/www >> by default. >> >> does wp have a default location it expects to be located specified perhaps >> in wp-config.php or some similar file? >> >> please advise. >> >> > > -- > Dion Hulse / dd32 > Contact: > e: [email protected] > Web: http://dd32.id.au/ > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > -- -af http://alonzofretwell.com http://twitter.com/alonzofretwell _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
