The filesystem where you installed WordPress needs to be readable and writeable by the uid that Apache2 is running as. If that’s www-data then makes sure that uid has the right permissions for that directory.
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]]>I believed for a moment that FTP installation of plugins came with the latest version of WordPress. I was at the point of creating an ‘install’ user with permissions to the DocumentRoot of the site when I took a moment to ask myself, “What the …. am I doing?” I’m not that trusting. Even the remote-via-HTTP install of plugins seems risky.
Thanks for catching that.
Tim.
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