In this tutorial, How to Fixed wordpress plugin install could not create directory. I'm using Nginx, PHP 7.4 and WordPress on Ubuntu 21.04.
After install and configure wordpress completed. I have update plugin and could not create directory. I installed into a wordpress directory in /var/www . Nginx does not have permissions to write to the wp-content directory.
Wordpress plugin SEO Error
Installing Plugin: SEO 17.0 Downloading install package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/seo.17.0.zip…
Unpacking the package…
Could not create directory.
How to do it Fixed
Step 1: Getting the connection information
Create new file whoami.php into /var/www/huuphan.com/ directory. For example, the content as below
[email protected]:~# cat /var/www/huuphan.com/whoami.phpCurl url or type domain in browser as below
<?php echo(exec("whoami")); ?>
[email protected]:~#
[email protected]:~# curl https://huuphan.com/whoami.php
huupv
Step 2: Change owner of the wordpress directory to user in shown with whoami.php. Example my user is huupv
sudo chown -R huupv:www-data /var/www/huuphan.comNote: Ubuntu use www-data user of Nginx server.
Step 3: Change permisstion for wordpress directory
sudo find /var/www/huuphan.com -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;
sudo find /var/www/huuphan.com -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
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