Wordpress: Installing Plugin error -> Could not create directory

Question

this has been asked again and again, but none of the solutions I found actually works for me. I'm testing a new server (Ubuntu server 14.04) and have gone through the whole installation process of the various required software. So far I can access my internal web page via http://myInternalIP/wordpress/ I added there a dummy post and it looks ok.

Now I wanted to add a plug-in, but I'm having major trouble with that. So here is what I have done.

I added a new user called ftps that has it's home dir in /usr/share/wordpress/ and this is part of

~$ groups ftps

ftps : ftps www-data

When I try to add a plug-in, all goes well until I get the following message:

Downloading install package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-importer.0.6.1.zip… Unpacking the package… Could not create directory. Return to Importers

So the general answer I found in many posts, is that this is a permission issue. Fine. Well I'm fighting with the permission issues since xx hours. So here is a brief summary of what I've done:

1. I've tried changing ownerships and groups around (www-data, my user name, ftps). It did not work.
2. I've changed permissions to 777 to all the wordpress directory in /usr/share/wordpress.
3. I've tried the following commands:

sudo -u helder touch /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/test.txt

sudo -u ftps touch /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/test.txt

sudo -u www-data touch /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/test.txt

All of these commands generated a file succesfully in the specific directory.

My feeling is that permissions are not the issue, but I might be wrong... what should I look out for?

Thanks

Answer 1

我必须在文件vsftpd.conf启用write_enable=YES 。

Answer 2

如果您使用的是vsftpd为您的FTP服务器并启用被动连接，你需要添加pasv_promiscuous=YES到/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf 。