New install 3.9.1 on Ubuntu 12.10

  • I have installed and used WordPress for few years now and recently I just installed a new server Ubuntu 12.10 and WordPress 9.3.1

    WordPress is up and running but unlike the older installations, it needs FTP to download and install themes and it will not accept media just by dragging jpg files over the library.

    WordPress 3.5.1 running over an Ubuntu 10.04 is running just fine …
    What happened?

    Alex

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  • What are the permissions on the /wp-content folder and those below? I assume they are too restrictive right now.

    It looks like you might be running a different PHP handler in your current compilation of Apache. If it’s DSO you have to specify FTP credentials to install/update things. For fcgi or suPHP you don’t. You can find out which one you have from either a phpinfo file or from shell run php -q

    Thread Starter agray19

    (@agray19)

    Problem fixed and here is the cause:

    Permission for WordPress folders and files was incorrect. To fix that the following command was used:

    sudo chown -R www-data:username /var/www

    I still don’t know what has changed in the installation of the current WordPress 9.3.1 which requires this manual step and which was automatic by the install process of WordPress 3.5.1

    I suppose they needed to fix something which was working!

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