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

    (@rooymans)

    Anybody?

    I’ve got the same problem. I can’t believe this topic has been idle for a month w/ no replies.

    Have you contacted your web host?

    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.

    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:

    https://www.ads-software.com/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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