Upgrade asks me for FTP

  • Hi… I’ve installed WordPress on https://winsat.com.ar under ‘wordpress’ folder.
    I installed plugins and a theme, also made a child theme.
    Always accesing to https://winsat.com.ar/wordpress/

    Then I changed my htaccess file and wordpress configuration to hide the wordpress folder on the URL.

    Site is working fine but when trying to update plugins, themes or wordpress core it asks me for FTP.

    Server configuration has no changed.

    This is my htaccess file:

    RewriteOptions inherit
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ wordpress/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ wordpress/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^winsat\.com\.ar$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.winsat\.com\.ar$

    What could be gone wrong? why is asking me for FTP if I already installed plugins and themes not by FTP way (just using WP interface)

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  • What could be gone wrong?

    Nothing. Some server configurations simply do not allow WordPress to use FTP automatically, hence the prompt to FTP login details.

    Thread Starter dragonauta

    (@dragonauta)

    Thanks Esmi
    Maybe I missed some info when writing my previous post.

    – I installed wordpress into a “wordpress” folder inside my root,
    – login to wordpress
    – installed a theme (didn’t ask me for ftp)
    – installed some plugins (didn’t ask me for ftp)
    – changed .htaccess to hide “wordpress” folder from URL.
    then can’t install nor upgrade. It asks for FTP credentials.

    I have a VPS. Using parallels plesk.
    although I do not manage this server (don’t have a root account), I talked to the Manager and said He had not changed anything at all on the server.

    Permissions are right, never touched
    That’s what seems really odd.

    Some time ago, I confronted a shared hosting that had several issues with permissions (I had to put 777 to any folder if I had to edit/install/upgrade)
    But this is not that case.

    Everything worked out-of-the-box, changed htaccess and ‘puf’…
    Will try to roll back my htaccess to default and see if works again.

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