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

[U]

(s)FTP is a standard way to upload plugins to a WP site. You don't need
root access to upload files via FTP. Have you tested it?

https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Marcus Valentine <marcus at marcusv.org>wrote:

> 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
>>
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