File Permissions

  • nickbudden

    (@nickbudden)


    15 years, 4 months ago

    Hi everyone,

    I’ve just uploaded a new installation of WordPress onto a new host and am having a few problems.

    1) When trying to update my installation, I’m asked for my FTP information
    2) I cannot edit WordPress themes from wp-admin
    3) I cannot upload plugins
    4) All pages that I create result in 404 errors

    I’m assuming this is a file permissions error, but I really don’t know how to fix it. Would anybody be able to do me a huge favor and share with me how this might be fixed?

    Thanks a lot for any help!

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  • stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    15 years, 4 months ago

    Hi

    These sound like questions you want to ask of your webhost. This sort of issue comes up based on the way file permissions on servers are configured. Ask the host how to correct these issues.

    The 404 errors may have something to do with permalinks. If you have enabled permalinks try setting them back to the default settings. (That won’t resolve the other issues).
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    Thread Starter nickbudden

    (@nickbudden)

    15 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    Thanks a lot for the reply! The site is for a friend and their host is a friend of theirs who probably wouldn’t know what to do about the permissions, but the biggest problem was the 404’s on the page and you were right, switching the permalinks back fixed the problem 😉

    I’m sure I can ftp my way through the theme editing/plugins!

    Moderator Dion Hulse

    (@dd32)

    Meta Developer

    15 years, 4 months ago

    1) When trying to update my installation, I’m asked for my FTP information
    2) I cannot edit WordPress themes from wp-admin
    3) I cannot upload plugins
    4) All pages that I create result in 404 errors

    1. It switches depending on various security items on the server, Having the files writeable is not enough for it to not ask for the ftp creds.
    2, 3. If the files are writeable by the server, that’ll be enabled, As it isnt at present, this means your server is not running in a configuration which allows that
    4. Glad to see thats already fixed.

    So in long length, WordPress has degraded gracefully to support what it can on your host, unfortunately, not every host is built equally 🙂

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