Help with a few projects

2017-12-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi everyone, My name is Ulysses Harmony Garcia. My web site is   https://www.sensation-experience.com/ I heard about I heard about this mailing list through a Facebook post.   For several years, I've been trying to figure out what kind of services I   could use to satisfy my needs. In the ear

Re: Help with a few projects

2017-12-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Ulysses, provide your error logs & we can assist w/the postfix problem. If those error logs contain information u don't wish on a public list, then go ahead & email me privately at abletec at g mail dot com. You can't copy-&-paste that email, as I've munged it to prevent spam harvesting, but u shou

Re: Help with a few projects

2017-12-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, This is the guide I used to follow and set up Postfix. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-postfix-as-a-send-only-smtp-server-on-ubuntu-16-04 The error occurred here. wordpressuser@vps:~$ echo "This is the body of the e-mail." | mail -s "This is th

Re: Help with a few projects

2017-12-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Ulysses, if you've got an Apache webserver, then generally speaking the group to hwich the webserver belongs by default is www-data. So u would add the wordpressuser to that group. Again, your postfix error is telling u that your user/group permissions are incorrect. My web hosting invoicing progr

Re: Help with a few projects

2017-12-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hello, For your information, could you please address me properly? I am female, and I do not know if there is anything that had implied that I was of a much younger age, but I am twenty-three. Sincerely, -HeavenlyHarmony On 12/12/2017 3:00 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Ulys

Re: Help with a few projects

2017-12-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I apologize. Ulysses is generally a male name, at least here in the States. As for your being young, my kids are all older than u--so to me you're young. I had actually guessed your age at 22, so I was not far off. On 12/12/17, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hello, > > For your infor

Re: Help with a few projects

2017-12-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I'm asking my friend to see if they can join this list and or e-mail you as they have more experience using various Linux distributions, whereas I only have used one. He said that Cent OS, which is a Red Hat distribution has a completely different management than Debian-based systems. So I'm wo

Re: Help with a few projects

2017-12-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, Darn! I tried this fix as outlined below. Root@vps: # adduser wordpressuser www-data Adding wordpressuer to www-data, done. root@vps: # chown wordpressuser:www-data -R /var/www/html Root@VPS: # Win SCP shows that /blog owner is wordpressuer, group is www-data, with same read write execut

Re: Help with a few projects

2017-12-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Did u restart your webserver? On 12/12/17, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi, > > Darn! I tried this fix as outlined below. > > Root@vps: # adduser wordpressuser www-data Adding wordpressuer to > www-data, done. > > root@vps: # chown wordpressuser:www-data -R /var/www/html > > Root@V

Re: Help with a few projects

2017-12-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I did that, but that didn't do anything, so I typed reboot and am waiting for everything to come back on-line. Okay, I'm logging into the web site right now, so far so good. I'm clicking the update plug-ins... Nope, it still says connection information. On 12/12/2017 4:29 PM, Linux for blind

Re: Help with a few projects

2017-12-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
How bout u do a quick ls -l to see if your ownership changes took effect. On 12/12/17, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I did that, but that didn't do anything, so I typed reboot and am > waiting for everything to come back on-line. Okay, I'm logging into the > web site right now, so f

Re: Help with a few projects

2017-12-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, An ls -l on /var/www/html/blog? It shows that everything in the blog folder is owne by Wordpressuser, and the group is www data. This is quite long but wordpressuser@vps:~$ cd /var/www/html wordpressuser@vps:/var/www/html$ ls -l total 372 -rwxrwxrwt 1 wordpressuser www-data  9398 Nov 30

Re: Help with a few projects

2017-12-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, You should have ownership of /var/www/html set to www-data:www-data Try changing the ownership, restart apache service and try again On 12/13/2017 1:25 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Connection Information To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web

Re: Help with a few projects

2017-12-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html set. Rebooted the system. Went to WordPress and tried updating. Connection Information To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials,

Re: Help with a few projects

2017-12-16 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi all, To the person who tried helping me fix this WordPress web server issue, I'm glad to say that I found a solution thanks to Ask Ubuntu on Stack Exchange. https://askubuntu.com/questions/986972/why-does-wordpress-keep-telling-me-that-it-needs-to-access-my-web-server So in the future, if s