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1. Wordpress for mac ftp credentials on localhost install#
2. Wordpress for mac ftp credentials on localhost update#

Once connected, select all your WordPress files and download them to your computer. There is another possible solution that you may try to solve this WordPress asking for FTP credentials on localhost problem. To do that you need to connect to your WordPress site using an FTP client. If this doesnt work for you then simply reply. The next step is to download your WordPress files. Now restart apache sudo service apache2 restartĪnd then make sure your account has permissions to the directory sudo chown -R USERNAME:USERNAME /var/www Then give Recursive Permission to apache sudo chown -R www-data:root /var/wwwĪnother way of doing it is by editing apache envvars sudo nano /etc/apache2/envvarsĮdit the lines where it says export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-dataĪnd replace www-data with your username for ubuntu export APACHE_RUN_USER=USERNAME So It turned out that wordpress can't write files to the wp-content directory because apache doesn't have permission to edit the directory so this is how I fixed it.Ĭopy group file to groups in the same directory sudo cp /etc/group /etc/groups I knew I could just add the ftp details in the config for wordpress but I was Like NAH! define('FSMETHOD','direct') define('FTPHOST', 'localhost') define('FTPUSER', 'admin') define('FTPPASS', '1234') The username and password is the same as the username pass when I installed the Wordpress during the installation.

Wordpress for mac ftp credentials on localhost install#

Then you go ahead and try deleting the Hello Dolly plugin and the Akismat plugin which I believe may not have much usage in localhost and you face this issue of unable to delete or install wordpress plugin. Keeping one fallback theme twenty twenty and deleting others. Here’s the simple solution if you come across with this problem: just add define (‘FSMETHOD’,’direct’) to wp-config.php and it will work on localhost. You gotta change the owner/group settings of wp-content/uploads folder, or maybe of all wp-content.

Wordpress for mac ftp credentials on localhost update#

When I created my Ubuntu server I installed a wordpress site and everytime I wanted to update a plugin I needed ftp access which was really annoying. Unable to Add/Delete plugin in localhost After you new and shiny localhost installation you go ahead and start cleaning up. What the heck is my FTP credentials when working locally This is a permissions issue.