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Problem solved! ??

Comment #44 under this blog post brought the solution for me: https://www.chrisabernethy.com/why-wordpress-asks-connection-info/

Followed the instructions and couldn’t believe my eyes when installing a theme out of wordpress worked finally! No ftp credentials dialog appeared! ??

So, thanks, pinkfrankenstein, for pointing me to this article! ??

Will test it for plugins and wordpress updates, too.

Lucky you …

I haven’t had any luck, yet.

I’m using the XAMPP package on my Mac mini which brings Apache, MySQL and PHP.
I don’t use Apple’s Apache/PHP and I didn’t download MySQL from their site.

In this XAMPP package Apache (process name is ‘httpd’ for those who didn’t know) runs under the username ‘nobody’.

So I chown’ed all files & folders in my wordpress installation directory recursively to ‘nobody’ but to no avail. I still get the ftp/sftp credentials dialog when I try to (auto-)install a theme in this case. (I guess it’s the same for auto-installing/-updating plugins or wordpress itself, right?)

Changing the files’ permissions to make them writable for the group (‘sudo chmod -R g+w *’ in the wordpress directory) didn’t help either. The user ‘nobody’ belongs to the group ‘admin’ here on my system.

So I have to look deeper into this. Maybe it’s something with groups…

WOW!

SO many postings in SUCH a short time.

So, no chance to be read by enough folks I guess. ??

Ever thought of using an FTP client, and uploading your images that way? Last I checked, that wasnt all that archaic.

Ever thought of always using the command line of an OS instead of the Explorer/Finder/… for such a basic functionality like copying files?

If a software package HAS feature x I want to USE feature x and not workaround a non-working feature x.

And how would I reference an ftp-uploaded file in an article? By typing the url to the file by hand? Cool, now THAT’s a modern, state-of-the-art approach! Does it work in other CMS/Blog-Systems like that, too? Nope.

Well, I know that app. 98-99% of all WP users probably won’t have this problem. But still, 1-2% can be many folks. And if the developers can’t reproduce the problem: I offered my help (I’m an IT guy, too, studied CS, working for over 25 years with computers now). And I’m sure all the user who still have this problem (and I see lots of posts here and in the german forum and in a Google search) would help, too.

So, to start off: what, *exactly*, are the correct folder permissions and owners for
wp-content/
wp-content/uploads/
?

My apache (process name “httpd” and NOT the one that comes with OS X but the one from the XAMPP package) runs as user “nobody”. Should the above mentioned folders be owned by this user “nobody”? Or should they belong to me, my user account? Does it matter at all?

Does wp-content/ have to be 777? (It is here.) Or is 755 sufficient? (Tried both, though.)
How about wp-content/uploads/? 777, right?

Thanks in advance for any constructive help.
Stefan.

Same here.

For three days now my WP 2.5.1 installation is practically useless because I can’t upload images and other files.
Same problem with importing an XML file of a former WP installation.

When you search the forum here you get 19 hits. Sometimes I had hope when I read that somebody apparently solved the problem. Tried his/her solution. Didn’t work for me.

All file/folder permissions are correct, open_basedir in my php.ini is not set (I’m running apache/mysql/WP on my MacMini here at home), added the upload_tmp_dir variable and pointed it to /tmp, file_uploads is On, etc… Nothing helps.

Did a completely new installation of another WP 2.5.1 from the original (german) distribution .zip file together with a fresh new database — same problem again!

So I suspect it has nothing to do with the database or the WP installation but with my server setup? But there are other WordPresses (< 2.5) running on the same server with the same PHP version and the same mySql version and everything works fine with them.
I even got a 2.5 WP to work (uploading of images worked) but after the 2.5.1 update this feature stopped working. ??

I’m willing to support you developers and experts! Ask me and I’ll do stuff, check things, alter setting and report back. Way too many people seem to have this problem with this essential feature!
WP is pretty much useless without being able to upload files or to import a former WP installation’s data!

(I documented all my efforts over at the german WP forum but I suspect that doesn’t help? The thread is here, anyway.)

Take care,
Stefan.