samforan

Hi, I made the necessary permissions changes. But now WordPress can’t upload files and make changes.

I think I’ve tracked it down to a file ownership problem. Could anybody provide some troubleshooting for this? I’ve found some other how-tos that involve the command line on my server that haven’t been successful.

Even after making those changes my site still appears to be offline/unavailable.

https://lunenburglitfestival.com

If I change the folder permissions to 766 from 644 it seems to open. Do I not “own” the permissions to the files/directories then?

Further information – I can’t open my wp-content folder in Coda2, for example. I get the error.

Server said: Can’t change directory to /public_html/wp-content: Permission denied

Error -125: remote chdir failed

This .htaccess file is in the root directory, above my “/wordpress” folder.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?samforan.ca$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ wordpress [L]

<?php
//The entry below were created by iThemes Security to disable the file editor
define( 'DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true );

//Do not delete these. Doing so WILL break your site.
define( 'WP_CONTENT_URL', 'https://samforan.ca/wordpress/content' );
define( 'WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/home/samf9424/public_html/wordpress/content' );
/**
 * The base configurations of the WordPress.
 *
 * This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,
 * Secret Keys, WordPress Language, and ABSPATH. You can find more information
 * by visiting {@link https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Editing_wp-config.php Editing
 * wp-config.php} Codex page. You can get the MySQL settings from your web host.
 *
 * This file is used by the wp-config.php creation script during the
 * installation. You don't have to use the web site, you can just copy this file
 * to "wp-config.php" and fill in the values.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'xxxx');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', xxxx);

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'xxxx');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

/**#@+
 * Authentication Unique Keys and Salts.
 *
 * Change these to different unique phrases!
 * You can generate these using the {@link https://api.www.ads-software.com/secret-key/1.1/salt/ www.ads-software.com secret-key service}
 * You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again.
 *
 * @since 2.6.0
 */
define('AUTH_KEY',         'xxxx');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'xxxx');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    'xxxx');
define('NONCE_KEY',        'xxxx');
define('AUTH_SALT',        'xxxx');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'xxxx');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   'xxxx',       'xxxx');

/**#@-*/

/**
 * WordPress Database Table prefix.
 *
 * You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique
 * prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
 */
$table_prefix = 'xxxxxx';

/**
 * WordPress Localized Language, defaults to English.
 *
 * Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen
 * language must be installed to wp-content/languages. For example, install
 * de_DE.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to 'de_DE' to enable German
 * language support.
 */
define('WPLANG', '');

/**
 * For developers: WordPress debugging mode.
 *
 * Change this to true to enable the display of notices during development.
 * It is strongly recommended that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG
 * in their development environments.
 */
define('WP_DEBUG', false);

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
	define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');

/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

Once I do that, I just get a blank white page.

This is what’s in the index.php

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php' );

I want just a single “/wordpress” .. not a double one, so I think the path is wrong?