hannah187

CJ..I believe you had been of most help to me..I am very very grateful for that. I may still come back to you as I know your kind offer is on the table..

I hope you are doing well..

Thanks a lot CJ for your time and patiece. My hats off to you. I am just learning the rope getting my hands dirty. Thanks a lot again.

once I installed vsftpd daemon..I am now able to install free themes through appearance tab. I wonder if wordpress needs an ftp daemon to connect to outside word to download and install themes

Just trying to revive this thread..
Clayton says

Once again… you CANNOT install themes from the net on your laptop unless you have an ftp server running and available to the WAN. You CANNOT install themes from your desktop into the themes directory using the wordpress media uploader

Ok I now have vsftpd server running and on the front end I am running Filezilla. Filezilla can connect to my vsftpd and I now have uploaded theme files through Filezilla to wordpress upload directory. However when I am trying to install this theme through Appearance tab under Admin I am getting this error again..

The uploaded file could not be moved to /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09.

Any help ..anyone please

and I too.. mine is WordPress 3.0.1 and hosted in my local laptop debian box

doubt it.. I having the same issue here.. I wordpress blog is hosted in my own debian local box. When I search for themes or plugin I am also getting this error..

An Unexpected HTTP Error occured during the API request.

any solution please

Ok some success. I have added this line in wp-config.php and am able to upload some theme files..
define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’);
Some other theme files are still giving me grief..

More info:
Also added myself in www-data user group
$ sudo usermod -aG www-data hannah

Clayton.. I do appreciate your continuous help..What I am suprised though however that I did not get any input from anyone else..

Still love you all..

Did some more digging. Played with phpMyadmin to see my privileges and found that hannah was set to USAGE under Global privileges 1 so I have now changed it to ALL PRIVILEGES

User Host Password Global privileges 1 Grant Action
debian-sys-maint localhost Yes ALL PRIVILEGES Yes Edit Privileges
hannah % Yes ALL PRIVILEGES Yes Edit Privileges

Still no luck uploading themes. I have restarted my apache webserver though .

I think I might have given the wrong link..here is right one..

https://www.ubuntugeek.com/installing-wordpress-3-0-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx.html

Hi Clayton…
I just beginning to think another avenue.. I was wondering if when I was installing wordpress and creating the Dbs in MySQL if I had inadvertently did some mistake..

I had followed the instruction ditto as mentioned here
https://www.ubuntugeek.com/installing-wordpress-3-0-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx.

is there anything amiss

interesting now..
ok followed your instruction but no joy yet (the theme file which I placed here is still there though)
see the terminal output now:
hannah@hannah-laptop:/var/www/wordpress/wp-content/themes$ ls -l
total 12
drwsr-sr-x 5 hannah www-data 4096 2010-09-02 22:09 2449
-rw-r–r– 1 hannah www-data 30 2009-04-16 07:57 index.php
drwsr-sr-x 4 hannah www-data 4096 2010-07-30 09:56 twentyten
hannah@hannah-laptop:/var/www/wordpress/wp-content/themes$

however…
Now I am able to browse / search different themes through Manage Themes.. previously I was getting this this error:
An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request.

However when I found the theme I like install from the Net (not from my desktop which still fails), following is the message I am getting:

Connection Information
To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access to your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials, you should contact your web host.
Hostname
FTP Username
FTP Password
Connection Type
Connection Type FTP FTPS (SSL)

Is this normal.. what is my Hostname? Funny that I am asking you about my hostname..is it localhost..

exactly same problem here.. wonder what’s going on.. any solution plz

Ok.. I now have chowned this:

hannah@hannah-laptop:~$ cd /var/www/wordpress/wp-content
hannah@hannah-laptop:/var/www/wordpress/wp-content$ ls -l
total 20
-rwsrwsrwt 1 hannah www-data 30 2007-05-05 09:48 index.php
drwsrwsrwt 3 hannah www-data 4096 2010-07-30 09:56 plugins
drwsrwsrwt 4 hannah www-data 4096 2010-09-02 22:10 themes
drwsrwsrwt 3 hannah www-data 4096 2010-09-04 16:20 uploads
drwsrwsrwt 3 hannah www-data 4096 2010-09-01 00:14 uploads_bak
where when I log in to wordpress admin panel, I use my user Id hannah and as you know that the webserver is owned by www-data.

You can see I have used recursively chmod -R 7777

Still no luck uploading the themes and I am still at default theme Twenty Ten 1.1

I also had been reading and found out about php.ini file where settings were:
safe_mode = Off
safe_mode_gid = Off

I have changed the setting to
safe_mode = Off
safe_mode_gid = On

Then restarted the apache server but still no joy.

You point of fresh install of WP is noted but I am still trying to see if there is another way of solving these..

Surely it cannot be this hard or am I just having purely bad beginners luck…

I wonder if it’s possible to chat with you sometime ClaytonJames

thanks heaps

As promised..
Part Output from phpinfo() file
Location
https://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/phpinfo.php

apache2handler
Apache Version Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)
Apache API Version 20051115
Server Administrator webmaster@localhost
Hostname:Port 127.0.1.1:80
User/Group www-data(33)/33

Output from the terminal
hannah@hannah-laptop:/var/www/wordpress/wp-content$ ls -l
total 20
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 30 2007-05-05 09:48 index.php
drwxrwxrwx 3 www-data www-data 4096 2010-07-30 09:56 plugins
drwxrwxrwx 4 www-data www-data 4096 2010-09-02 22:10 themes
drwxrwxrwx 3 www-data www-data 4096 2010-09-02 21:41 uploads
drwxrwxrwx 3 www-data www-data 4096 2010-09-01 00:14 uploads_bak
hannah@hannah-laptop:/var/www/wordpress/wp-content$

Any suggestions please..