plasticsman

Apparently this is some kind of wordpress issue. Thanks to a post from Detroiter on his thread regarding an issue that is similiar to this I did this (You can remove the FTP_PASS line if you want to manually enter in your password). This will tell wordpress where it should go and enter in the FTP info automatically if you choose to do things that way.

Edit your wp-config.php file putting these lines in underneath <?php:

define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘ftpsockets’);
define(‘FTP_BASE’, ‘/path/to/wordpress/’);
define(‘FTP_CONTENT_DIR’, ‘/path/to/wordpress/wp-content/’);
define(‘FTP_PLUGIN_DIR ‘, ‘/path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/’);
define(‘FTP_USER’, ‘username’);
define(‘FTP_PASS’, ‘password’);
define(‘FTP_HOST’, ‘ftp.example.org’);

Thanks for your input anyway Esmi

Thank you Detroiter .. this solution fixed my problem of the plugins not installing and saying that the directory exists when it does not!
Thanks.

They do not seem to have a clue yet.

Anyway I deleted the plugins directory entirely and tried to install a new plugin through wordpress. Got the same directory already exists error.

This makes no sense. Must be a bug. Who do I send this to?

I am asking them now. It makes no sense to me. Using PHP version 5.1.6 if that helps any.

Manually will work but why will the automatic install not work? This makes things a lot easier and it should work no?

Thanks.

Yes. Directory is not there. These are new plugins or themes never on the server before.