I have no plugins directory in my wordpress directory or its subdirectories.
Clearly wordpress WANTS the user to use ftp or, presumably equivalently for its purposes, sftp. How do I set that up strictly locally, i.e., server running wordpress is localhost; files to be transmitted are on the same local Mac housing localhost. > On 1 Aug2020, at 8:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macports.org wrote: > > From: "Bill Cole" <macportsusers-20171...@billmail.scconsult.com > <mailto:macportsusers-20171...@billmail.scconsult.com>> > To: "MacPorts Users" <macports-users@lists.macports.org > <mailto:macports-users@lists.macports.org>> > Subject: Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site? > Message-ID: > > On 31 Jul 2020, at 20:28, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > >> I?ve installed the MacPorts version of apache2 and have a working >> localhost wordpress site running under apache2. >> >> How to I enable ftp with this, so that I can ftp into the wordpress >> site? (This is so I can install WordPress plugins.) > > If it's running on 'localhost' then you don't need FTP, you can just > copy the plugins' files to the WordPress tree > (/opt/local/www/apache2/html/ or a subdirectory of that, depending on > how you installed WordPress) directly. You may need to adjust ownership > and/or permissions on that directory or use 'sudo cp' in a Terminal > session to do the copying. WP plugins typically install in their own > subdirectory trees under the 'plugins' subdirectory of the WordPress > root. > >> Is there some particular MacPorts port I need to add? and then what do >> I need to do so it?s available from within the wordpress site? >> >> (WordPress docs don?t deal with this! they just say to use ftp to >> install the plugins.) > > Which is unfortunate, because FTP is a mess security-wise. While one CAN > make it reasonably safe, doing so narrows the range of clients that work > with any particular secure setup. If you end up with a WordPress site > running on a remote system where you need a file transfer facility, you > are better off using SFTP, which provides a FTP-like client interface > without the backend that has been evolving organically since the `70s. > SFTP is a subsystem of OpenSSH, so nearly any modern > Unix/Linux/BSD/MacOS server that allows remote login supports SFTP by > default. > > Bill Cole --- Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenb...@gmail.com 503 King Farm Blvd #101 Home (240)-246-7240 Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334
