Comments on: Auto Update WordPress Without FTP

By: Meri Weinzetl

Meri Weinzetl — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:33:23 +0000

truly. preferred profession so far in digg. props!

By: m-jamil

m-jamil — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:38:32 +0000

very nice solution thankds

By: sharad kadam

sharad kadam — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:53:15 +0000

man, it was pain in the ass…

never found such an easy solution.,
i also tried chmod -R wp-contents

but it didnt worked out
so as by your steps., i did

chown -R apache /home/admin/mydomain/

and its working like charm.,
thanks a lot., this page is bookmarked.

By: Kevin McCaughey

Kevin McCaughey — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:45:50 +0000

Just what I was looking for after moving my site to my VPN – thanks!

FYI you should really just chown your HTML directory with www-data, more than that isn;t necessary.

By: Arturo Campos

Arturo Campos — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:15:29 +0000

@Robert, thanks so much for your tip! I’ve been annoyed with this for weeks!

Thanks!

By: web hosting source

web hosting source — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:56:08 +0000

ahaha
this is really cool, i have doing a lot of search about this and finally i could update my wordpress by change to owner to apache user and it works, is that ok with change to owner to apache user ?

anyway, many thanks for the posting

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:09:42 +0000

@Jeremy Clarke,

Then what should we do to revert it back? I’m scared of my site getting hacked Thank You

By: Gouri

Gouri — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:50:07 +0000

Thanks for such a detailed help. Editing the wp-config file also works fine..

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