Title: Automatic Plugin Upgrade permissions
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Automatic Plugin Upgrade permissions

 *  [rooymans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rooymans/)
 * (@rooymans)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-plugin-upgrade-permissions/)
 * Hi, I’ve been using the “automatic upgrade” function for my plugins and in general
   this works fine. However, upgraded plugins are installed with the apache user
   permissions, which doesn’t allow me to edit the new files. I am using a shared
   webhost and I don;t know how to login and chnage these permissions. My “normal”
   FTP user doesn’t have the permissions to chnage or edit this.
 * What do I need to do?
 * Joost

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 *  Thread Starter [rooymans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rooymans/)
 * (@rooymans)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-plugin-upgrade-permissions/#post-740117)
 * Anybody?
 *  [ambivalentmaybe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambivalentmaybe/)
 * (@ambivalentmaybe)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-plugin-upgrade-permissions/#post-740146)
 * I’ve got the same problem. I can’t believe this topic has been idle for a month
   w/ no replies.
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-plugin-upgrade-permissions/#post-740147)
 * Have you contacted your web host?
 *  [ambivalentmaybe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambivalentmaybe/)
 * (@ambivalentmaybe)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-plugin-upgrade-permissions/#post-740148)
 * I just submitted a support ticket today to have them change the permissions. 
   If it’s successful (and I assume it will be), I’ll post here again. There must
   be a simpler solution, though.
 *  [Oceanwatcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oceanwatcher/)
 * (@oceanwatcher)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-plugin-upgrade-permissions/#post-740204)
 * This problem is well known and nobody really has a solution yet. PHP runs as 
   the Apache user or as “nobody” and that of course will set the same owner for
   the files/folders.
 * Really big problems arises if permissions on the files/folders are not set to
   777. But I found some things that MIGHT give a clue to the root of the problem.
   I made a post about it here:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/213163?replies=2#post-885410](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/213163?replies=2#post-885410)
 * You could of course ask your admin to chown -R all files and folders, but this
   has to be done as root. Something most people on hosted domains usually do not
   have for obvious reasons 🙂

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 * [permissions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permissions/)

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 * Last reply from: [Oceanwatcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oceanwatcher/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-plugin-upgrade-permissions/#post-740204)
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