Wordpress on local LAMP stack - How to allow PHP files to FTP

Question

No more cowboy coding! I'm trying to develop on my local machine, but I'm no Ubuntu expert!

I've got it to the point where when I browse to "localhost" in my browser, it pulls up my Wordpress install and runs the site. It's trying to update, and showing this prompt:

So it's trying to run FTP as what? I'm new to Ubuntu, on my shared Bluehost server space Wordpress has no trouble FTPing out. How do I configure this on my local Ubuntu machine so that Wordpress can update. It's a fresh Ubuntu install from ISO disk. Do I need to configure FTP somehow? This is probably a very basic question - I think I'm looking for a few shell commands as the answer.

Answer 1

Here is a way in which you can disable the FTP Credentials for installing Plugins and Themes from backend

Just Add the following Code in wp-config.php

define('FS_METHOD','direct');