So like many before me, I have struggled with WordPress on my personal VPS. Its not the hosting service’s fault, nor the servers fault. Everything works just as it should. WordPress, however, will not be able to make changes to files and directories unless you have (a) modified user permissions and potentially compromising security, (b) Go through extraneous efforts to search and modify configuration files, or (c) set your PHP Execution mode to “CGI Wrapper” [or other terminological exquivalents] instead of using apache to execute. Yes; that’s all you have to do.
Hope this helps for you future lost souls that find this thread 😉
