Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

On 2 Aug 2020, at 13:13, Murray Eisenberg wrote: (1) OK, I already have a plugins subdirectory the wordpress wp-content directory. It’s already populated with an index.php, hello.php, and an aksimet subdirectory. I put the new plugin I needed, wp-all-import there, too. Unfortunately, when I

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

On 1 Aug 2020, at 20:09, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 7:49 PM Bill Cole wrote: ... Doing a little research, I found that the reason WP sometimes asks for ftp credentials is that it can't directly write to the plugins directory. That usually means that it also can't write to

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

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Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

But I want to protect against anybody from outside my Mac being able to log in remotely to it. Doesn’t enabling “Remote Login” in Sharing allow logins from outside? > On 2 Aug2020, at 8:00 AM, "Bill Cole" > > wrote: > > On 1 Aug 2020, at

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

I recently ran into the exact same permissions problem with wordpress on Ubuntu, so its ubiquitous on self-installations. The www process needs to be able to write to the wordpress contents directory, or wordpress can't work. I found at least a dozen walkthrus on the web about how to fix this..

RE: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

I second Cristopher's observations: when the server is locally available, FTP isn't necessary. That said, I usually install plug-ins from the WP Dashboard, which is available from any location. John Korchok

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

On 7/31/2020 7:28 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: (WordPress docs don’t deal with this! they just say to use ftp to install the plugins.) I have the impression that the documentation merely accommodates the common use case where WordPress is being hosted on a remote server by a third-party web hos

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 7:49 PM Bill Cole wrote: > > ... > Doing a little research, I found that the reason WP sometimes asks for > ftp credentials is that it can't directly write to the plugins > directory. That usually means that it also can't write to any of > wp-content/, which is a problem tha

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

On 1 Aug 2020, at 10:36, Murray Eisenberg wrote: (I searched for “openssh” in /opt but find nothing with that name there, so I cannot even see any config file for it!) There is a port for OpenSSH named 'openssh' so you should have found something... But generally you wouldn't want to use th

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

acOS user with admin rights. On 1 Aug2020, at 8:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macports.org wrote: From: "Bill Cole" <mailto:macportsusers-20171...@billmail.scconsult.com>> To: "MacPorts Users" <mailto:macports-users@lists.macports.org>> Subject: Re:

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

same local Mac housing localhost. > On 1 Aug2020, at 8:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macports.org wrote: > > From: "Bill Cole" <mailto:macportsusers-20171...@billmail.scconsult.com>> > To: "MacPorts Users" <mailto:macports-users@lists.macports.org&

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

wordpress is asking for my ftp credentials for my web server (hostname, ftp username, and ftp password) in order to install a plug-in. The server is just localhost. How do I discover or set my ftp username and password with the openssh port so as to be able to use sftp with it? (I searched for

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

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

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

I'd strongly recommend you don't use FTP. Use 'sftp' instead (if you've got sshd running on the server you can use sftp). Most of the graphical ftp clients support sftp also. For anyone out there who actually needs ftp, vsftpd is a pretty good choice (but you probably don't actually need ftp, s

How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

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.) Is there some particular MacPorts port I need to add? and the