Unable to update WordPress due to incorrect file permission
I am getting error while updating plugin. This is Oracle Linux Arm Ampere instance.
An error occurred while updating Akismet Anti-Spam: Could not create directory.
I have applied following permission on files and folders.
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/mysite/html
sudo find /var/www/mysite/html -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find /var/www/mysite/html -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
I have another WordPress site on VirMach VPS with same permission and there it updates fine. Here's result of ls -l
[opc@arm html]$ ls -l
total 212
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 405 Feb 6 2020 index.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 19915 Jan 1 2022 license.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 7401 Mar 22 21:11 readme.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 7165 Jan 21 2021 wp-activate.php
drwxr-xr-x 9 nginx nginx 4096 Jul 12 16:16 wp-admin
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 351 Feb 6 2020 wp-blog-header.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 2338 Nov 9 2021 wp-comments-post.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 3230 Aug 18 17:53 wp-config.php
drwxr-xr-x 4 nginx nginx 52 Jul 12 16:16 wp-content
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 3943 Apr 28 09:49 wp-cron.php
drwxr-xr-x 26 nginx nginx 12288 Jul 12 16:16 wp-includes
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 2494 Mar 19 20:31 wp-links-opml.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 3973 Apr 12 01:47 wp-load.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 48498 Apr 29 14:36 wp-login.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 8577 Mar 22 16:25 wp-mail.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 23706 Apr 12 09:26 wp-settings.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 32051 Apr 11 11:42 wp-signup.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 4748 Apr 11 11:42 wp-trackback.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 nginx nginx 3236 Jun 8 2020 xmlrpc.php
Site Health in WordPress says:
Shows whether WordPress is able to write to the directories it needs access to.
The main WordPress directory Not writable
The wp-content directory Not writable
The uploads directory Not writable
The plugins directory Not writable
The themes directory Not writable
But the other site on VirMach VPS says these folders are writeable.
SELinux is disabled.
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Before someone who actually knows anything offers a solution (and/or corrects me), did you try re-setting the permissions a bit higher up the directory hierarchy (provided that doesn't affect security in a bad way)?
How's Akismet working for you - beside the update problem?
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Ok after much trial and error I managed to fix the issue. I compared
www.conf
of both VPS and noticed the following:Debian 11 on VirMach
sudo nano /etc/php/8.1/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
user = www-data
group = www-data
Oracle Linux 8 on Oracle Cloud
sudo nano /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
user = apache
group = apache
Aha so the user is actually
apache
and notnginx
as I thought. So running following command fixed the issue.sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/mysite/html
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Why not a standard user “www-data” or “website?”
Edit:
Based on response below,
Maybe CentOsWebPanel might be a better fit. Debian I would have recommended Webinoly - best wishes
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Because
apache
is defined in Oracle Linux 8 in phpfpm config. I can try to change it towww-data
but it may require some extra work fiddling with permission as I am a Linux noob.Powerful Core i9 VPS (aff)| List of all VirMach VPS (aff)
Are you alilet on LET? Questions seem the same on both forums.
You have mentioned your Server OS as Debian11. Here you mention Oracle Linux 8.
What OS exactly are you using or planning to use?
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Yeah. Debian 11 is VirMach VPS. Oracle Linux is Arm Ampere for which I posted this issue.
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I had suggested CWP (Centos web panel) which will not work afaik. See if Ajenti works. If your end goal is WordPress, then you should be focusing on WP management, not server admin :-)
See if any of these projects have an arm equivalent
http://docs.ajenti.org/en/latest/man/install.html
http://docs.sentora.org/?node=7
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Oracle Linux is similar to Fedora, FWIW - Some (Most?) tutorials for Fedora should work on Oracle Linux as well.
Failing that, Ubuntu is available for ARM instances on Oracle Cloud.
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