susie54

I could never get the FTP settings to work, but I found this solution for anyone on OSX: https://www.messaliberty.com/2010/04/how-to-fix-wordpress-automatic-upgrades-and-plugin-installs-on-xampp/

These changes will stop your local WordPress install from asking for FTP settings when trying to do updates through XAMPP.

I was just running up against the same problem – trying to update WordPress plugins on WordPress 3.0 on XAMPP server installed locally and could not get past the ftp hostname, username, password combination.

Thankfully I came across this post – https://www.messaliberty.com/2010/04/how-to-fix-wordpress-automatic-upgrades-and-plugin-installs-on-xampp/ – and its now working fine for me (not requesting the ftp details). Had to muck around a bit with the file permissions on the file you have to change in XAMPP, but got there eventually.