Write Permissions

  • My whole site is write protected except for some plugins and the upload area. Nearly every plugin wants to write into a certain subdirectory of it’s own. After every update I have to look for subdirs to be unlocked. This is really annoying!

    Could following idea be made as a standard?
    Like Windows 7’s subdir “Application Data” there is a subdirectory open to write and every plugin has a own subdirectory there?

    Thanks!

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  • My whole site is write protected except for some plugins and the upload area.

    Your files would normally be writable to your user account, and in some cases they may need to be writable by the web server. Some reference material: Permission Scheme for WordPress

    Nearly every plugin wants to write into a certain subdirectory of it’s own. After every update I have to look for subdirs to be unlocked.

    That seems pretty unusual. It sounds like you could have an ownership or permissions issue with the files on your web space. Can you give some specific examples of what plugins are displaying the behavior, and what sub-directories they are trying to write to?

    Are you on shared hosting, a dedicated server, or running WordPress on a machine you’ve setup locally?

    Thread Starter LSBK

    (@lsbk)

    Hi
    it’s a shared hosting, I installed WP myself
    FTP user is file owner with write access
    Webserver has no modify rights except: wp-content/uploads (there is also a subfolder of ithemes-security) and on some plugins.
    My idea is not to ask for a solution but is an idea for the future to place all writable subdirectories into one place.

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