Web based plugin/theme problems

  • Hi all,

    I’m a bit of a noob web admin and have recently setup my own hosting server. The five minute install is working perfectly, so I know I have all the permissions/groups set up correctly, but for some reason, I get asked to enter FTP details before I can install plugins from within the admin area.

    On my other host (that I pay for) I can install plugins without entering any other information. Does anyone know what I’ve done wrong?

    I found this in the wordpress host requirements documentation:

    Remote Connections: PHP and your Server must be able to perform Remote Connections. [( _ ) Yes, my Server is located in an Internet Environment and ( _ ) Yes, PHP is properly configured to let WordPress act as Web-Drone.]

    Can anyone clarify what this means in more detail? I’m not sure exactly what a ‘web-drone’ is or why PHP needs to act like one… ??

    Thanks

    Andy

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  • you found that where?

    here?

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/User:Hakre/Technical_Installation

    re: web drone,

    that is a page created by some guy .. (anyone can edit the codex) and i’m guessing he’s the one that would need to explain his language, but I can give you a pretty good idea..

    the upgrades use the Snoopy HTTP class.

    What is Snoopy?

    Snoopy is a PHP class that simulates a web browser. It automates the
    task of retrieving web page content and posting forms, for example.

    Some of Snoopy’s features:

    * easily fetch the contents of a web page
    * easily fetch the text from a web page (strip html tags)
    * easily fetch the the links from a web page
    * supports proxy hosts
    * supports basic user/pass authentication
    * supports setting user_agent, referer, cookies and header content
    * supports browser redirects, and controlled depth of redirects
    * expands fetched links to fully qualified URLs (default)
    * easily submit form data and retrieve the results
    * supports following html frames (added v0.92)
    * supports passing cookies on redirects (added v0.92)

    snoopy uses fsockopen.

    Im guessing that on hosts that dont have fsockopen, that wordpress falls back to the standard ftp method.

    create a phpinfo file, and see if you have fsockopen enabled. you probably dont.

    Thread Starter Hellweaver666

    (@hellweaver666)

    Wicked! Thanks!

    Thread Starter Hellweaver666

    (@hellweaver666)

    Hmmm… I’ve looked in my phpinfo but can’t see any mention of fsockopen

    Do you know specifically what I should be looking for?

    Thanks

    Andy

    This could very well be the solution to my problems as well. What exactly should phpinfo() say if fsockopen is enabled?

    my bad — that wont work. edit that phpinfo file and put this in it:

    <?php
if(function_exists('fsockopen')) {
echo "fsockopen yay";
}
else {
echo "fsockopen nay";
}
?>
    Thread Starter Hellweaver666

    (@hellweaver666)

    Hi Whooami,

    Sorry to hassle you about this, I don’t have a lot of other sources for information on this problem… ??

    The good news is I get an ‘fsockopen yay’ when running the test above. The bad news is that I still can’t do the automatic upgrade or plugin/theme install from within wp-admin. Is there anything else that I might be missing?

    Thanks – I really appreciate your help.

    Andy

    Thread Starter Hellweaver666

    (@hellweaver666)

    Can anyone else help me with this? I’m really keen to get this working properly so the users on my server can actually get the best from WordPress, but I’m really stuck now on how to proceed with this one little problem.

    Thanks

    Andy

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