MKSi

Finally got this fixed!

I’m using a Linux server on Opensuse 12.1.

Whatever ftp you are using make sure its on in “System Services (Runlevel).” Here’s how to check.
1. open “Yast”
2. click “system” icon (on the left)
3. click “System Services (Runlevel)”
4. click “Expert Mode” (at the top)
5. look for the ftp that you are using and select it. Mine was pure-ftpd.
6. click “Start/Stop/Refresh” (at the bottom left).
7. click “Start now …”
8. click “Set/Reset”
9. click “Enable the service”
10. click OK

Then set it up in firewall
1. open “Yast”
2. click “Security and Users”
3. click “Firewall”
4. click “Allowed Services”
5. click “Service to Allow”
6. select your ftp
7. click “Add”
8. click “Next”
9. click “Finish”

Now for wordpress. Here is what worked for me:
1. Log into your wordpress account
2. go to the screen where it ask for your ftp info
“Hostname:
FTP Username:
FTP Password:”
3. For “Hostname” type in the static IP Address of your server, then a colon sign and then 21. Ex. 192.168.0.3:21
4. For “FTP Username” type in your user name.
The same one you use to login to server. BUT it should not be “root.”
5. For “FTP Password” type in the password to that user name.

Ex.
Hostname: 192.168.0.3
FTP Username: serverusername
FTP Password: passwordforserverusername

I did what fkoosna wrote. Except that I substituted www-data for mine.

I had to go to chown 0 */*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/* and got the error no such file or directory.

Back to WordPress:
Does it matter how I put my IP address into the hostname field?
EX. ftp//:xxx.xxx.x.x or (without ftp) xxx.xxx.x.x or something else altogether?

When I tried to find the userid, I opened up a terminal application and typed “id -u root”

It gave me “0” (the number zero)

OK thanks Jan. I check it when I go back to work on Monday.

Hey, fkoosna.

I’m going to try that Monday and see if it works for me. Our server is using openSUSE 12.1.

ok

Hmm, I’m thinking what if there are many file permissions that need to be changed.

Question:
If I downloaded and installed word press directly from our Linux server, would the file permissions match the userid of the web server?

again, sorry for be a noob

Hey, thanks. I really appreciate the reply and the link. After reading it, it sounds really helpful.

Want to know if I’m understanding it correctly. It sounds like I need to download wordpress from the internet directly to our Linux server?

That way the owner of “our WordPress files and the user under which our web server executes” will match?

Because wordpress was originally downloaded and created on my macbook, then manually transferred to our Linux server

I’ll post my own topic now.

Hey, everyone. I’m hoping to find answers to a problem I’m having.

Problem: I keep getting this message “Failed to connect to FTP Server localhost:21” after input my Hostname, FTP Username and FTP Password.

Here’s what I put in:
Hostname localhost
FTP Username root
FTP Password (the same password I use to log into our Linux server)

Some background: I created a wordpress website on my macbook for my boss. He likes it. He hosts his website on his own Linux server with OpenSUSE 12.1. After moving the files from my laptop to the Linux server, I tried to download a plugin. It brought me to that screen where I got that message.

“Failed to connect to FTP Server localhost:21”

I searched all over Google but haven’t really found anyone who has fixed this problem.

Is “localhost” good enough for Hostname?
Should I be using the same user id and password as the one I use to log into server (or something else?