FTP Credentials
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Current environment on VPS:
CentOS 7x
WP v5.8.4
PHP v7.4
Plugin folder and directories permission (recursive) = 755
Plugin files permission (recursive) = 644I moved my site from shared hosting to the current VPS and was getting the following when I tried to update plugins:
“To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials, you should contact your web host.”
…After reading several threads here, I added the following code to my wp-config.php:
define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’);
define(‘FTP_BASE’, ‘/usr/home/username/public_html/my-site.example.com/wordpress/’);
define(‘FTP_CONTENT_DIR’, ‘/usr/home/username/public_html/my-site.example.com/wordpress/wp-content/’);
define(‘FTP_PLUGIN_DIR ‘, ‘/usr/home/username/public_html/my-site.example.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/’);…and now when I try to update a plugin I get:
“Update failed: Could not create directory.”
Not sure how to proceed now for resolution of this issue and appreciate any help!!
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Updates can fail for a large number of reasons and it is often hard to diagnose the failure due to specific configurations present on each server running the update. For example, permissions may be incorrectly set, the unpacking of the new version might not have been properly verified due to high system loads with your host if many users are updating at the same time or they have a very loaded service, An IO hang, files are being validity checked and they fail due to a corrupted bit. There are many more reasons that things could have failed. We can only recommend what to do if one does occur.
Manually installing plugins:
– Try installing or upgrading the Plugin manually.
– https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-manually-update-wordpress-plugins-via-ftp/Manually updating WP:
– https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/updating-wordpress/#manual-update
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