Theme & Plugin Install Failure – Unable to locate WordPress Content directory

I did the following:
sudo chmod 0777 upgrade/

This had no effect.
I have reverted by doing the following:
sudo chmod 0775 upgrade/

Rewinding….

You said this earlier:
drwxrwsr-x 3 apache testdomain3.com.g /wp-content/uploads

When you set up /wp-content/upgrade, did you do that as apache:testdomain3.com.g too?

at this point we are at testdomain4.com… just fyi.

the uploads directory is not created by default. It is only created after an image upload is completed. I had not done any image uploads yet as we resolved that problem. As such no uploads dir existed. I have uploaded an image to a post and now it exists with the following permissions:

drwxrwsr-x 3 testdomain4.com testdomain4.com.g plugins
drwxrwsr-x 3 testdomain4.com testdomain4.com.g themes
drwxrwsr-x 3 root            testdomain4.com.g upgrade
drwxrwsr-x 3 apache          testdomain4.com.g uploads

upgrade is owned by root as it was manually created.
uploads is owned by apache as it was created via the image upload process.

Having the uploads folder has made no change in the plugin install outcome.

Same idea ?? 4, 3, whatever

Change upgrade to apache:testdomain4.com.g if you can, please. While WordPress SHOULD be able to create it, I’ve had moments where my server barfed on it.

I have added the upgrade and uploads folder creation to my initialization script.

I have done the following:
sudo chown -R apache ./upgrade/

The ownership is now:

drwxrwsr-x 3 testdomain4.com testdomain4.com.g plugins
drwxrwsr-x 3 testdomain4.com testdomain4.com.g themes
drwxrwsr-x 3 apache          testdomain4.com.g upgrade
drwxrwsr-x 3 apache          testdomain4.com.g uploads

I cleaned out the upgrade folder and rearn plugin install. I have the same problem still.

I wdid not revert this change as it should be a benign change.

Side Note:

When i manually add a file or directory under the upgrade folder, using ftp client, it is added with the group write bit set. When i install a plugin, the folder that is created does not have the group write bit set.

Well that makes a bit of sense… When you do it via WordPress it’s running as whomever runs PHP. If you check the folders in uploads, I suspect they’d be the same as for upgrade…

What are the permissions/ownerships for the folders and files in the plugins directory?

FWIW, here’s how the plugin upgrade via WordPres works:
1) Download the zip file to /wp-content/upgrade
2) Explode the zip
3) COPY the unzipped folder to /wp-content/plugins/

I THINK we’re at step 3 now, so I’m leaning to thinking the error is it can’t overwrite the files. This MAY be due to the group/owner mismatch.

I disagree in that we are step 3. I think we are at step 2. The directory structure for the plugin exists in the upgrade folder but there are no files at all in any of the subdirs.

A, sorry, you’re right. I thought the .tmp folder was … A folder not a file. Bad read on my end, sorry.

What version of PHP do you have installed? And is it SuPhp or suhosin?

PHP Version:
php5 latest from amzn rpm using yum

I don’t even know what SuPHP or suhosin are