[HacktionLab] Wordpress file permissions and ownership: command line versus dashboard

[Marcus Valentine]

Say the user has written their own wordpress plugin. It needs to go into 
plugins directory. They can't put it into the plugins directory 
themselves as the files as owned by the web server user and the user 
does not have root access.


On 01/04/2014 22:52, U wrote:
> Slightly confused by your issue, what's wrong with the default
> configuration?
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Marcus Valentine <marcus at marcusv.org
> <mailto:marcus at marcusv.org>> wrote:
>
>     As as far as I am aware, for wordpress core upgrades, installation
>     of plugins, themes etc to work through the WP dashboard, all files
>     need to be owned by web-server user.
>
>     This is all well and good, but then WP admins also on occasion want
>     to add their own self-written themes, plugins via sftp etc.
>
>     Has anyone figured out a permissions scheme that satisfies both
>     requirements?
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Marcus