WordPress asking for FTP Credentials for a dummie

Hi!

Years ago I made myself a wordpress site and I am happy with it, so my current employers have asked me to make a wordpress site for them too. So we got the domain, I followed the installation tutoriol and everything seemed great, but something is wrong and I can’t figure it out.

Problem one:
I can’t install anything without having to give my FTP credentials again

Problem two:
Anything requiering bulk action is blocked. For instace when I wanted to install a premade site from my theme I got this message: “Hi! It seems there is a configuration issue with your server that’s causing the import to fail. Please get in touch with us with the error code below, so we can help you fix this.” But there is no error code below and when I click the “Download error log” button I get this message “Not Found, The requested URL was not found on this server. Apache/2.4.25 (Debian) Server at https://www.humorwerktthuis.nl Port 443” So that’s not helpfull.

I have searched for hours now and I can’t figure it out. I did find the following solution which seems promising, but I don’t fully understand it:

This is user’s permission problem that will be solved by method given below that worked for me.

step-1 : First open wp-config.php file of your wordpress installation folder.
step-2: Copy below code and paste it at the end of the wp-config.php file.

define(‘FS_METHOD’,’direct’);
step-3: Now open your droplet access console and enter root as username and its password.
step-4: Copy below code and paste it into access console where you have to specify your plugin directory path and then hit enter.

chmod 777 /yourwebsitename/public/wp-content/plugins/
Note: Replace your website name in the place of yourwebsitename.

So I understand adding the code to the wp-config.php file. I assume I can just alter it in filezilla and that is that? But I do not understand step 3 and four. What is droplet acces? What is acces console? Can someone explain this to me? I would really appreciate it.

If you have anything else which might work I would appreciate that too, because the above solution is from 2016, so it might be super outdated.

Could the server be a problem? Because with my personal website I use a different host and I never had this problem.

• This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by catinka88.
• This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by catinka88.