Cant FTP with WordPress Plugins but can with local ftp client

  • estrelamarketingsolutions

    (@estrelamarketingsolutions)


    13 years, 4 months ago

    I am trying to add a new plugin to my new wordpress site (ver 3.2.1) hosted locally on a centos 6 linux box. from my workstation (windows xp) i can issue a command prompt, type in “ftp” and get an ftp prompt. I then issue an “open 192.168.0.10” and get a user prompt. I type in the username and password and get a “230 Login successful”, where i can issue commands like “pwd” “ls” “cd temp” and “put”. all seems good.

    so now i go to the admin panel for the website (https://192.168.0.10/wp-admin), choose Plugins, Add New, Search Plugins for “EZPZ Backup”, select Install Now, select OK to install plugin, enter in hostname:192.168.0.10, ftp username:webadm, ftp passowrd:W3b@Dm1N, Connection type is FTP, and then select Proceed. Instead of Wallah, i get this: Installing Plugin: EZPZ One Click Backup 0.8.2
    Unable to locate WordPress Content directory (wp-content).

    what do i have to do to get wordpress to install plugins? Any Help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks

    fyi, this is not about www.ads-software.com site, but my own linux based locally hosted wordpress site…

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  • Thread Starter estrelamarketingsolutions

    (@estrelamarketingsolutions)

    now i am getting this:
    An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request.
    Try again

    how can i narrow down what the unexpected error is? what log file do i want to look at?

    thanks

    Thread Starter estrelamarketingsolutions

    (@estrelamarketingsolutions)

    bump

    anyone?

    Thread Starter estrelamarketingsolutions

    (@estrelamarketingsolutions)

    now i am back to this:
    Installing Plugin: EZPZ One Click Backup 0.8.2
    Unable to locate WordPress Content directory (wp-content).

    any help? anyone?

    I got this today and the difference between the new webserver and past ones where it worked just fine is that the wp-content directory was not in the root directory of the web server. So if you FTP to your server, I am betting that wp-content is in a subdirectory, like under htdocs or public_http or something like that.

    Let me know if that was your issue and if it was resolved. If so, I’d love to hear how it was fixed!

    Mike

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