[wp-testers] Problems with autoupdate and plugin installer

[bosmail at gmail.com]

Iv'e changed all the files to be owned by the webserver and then it worked.

Over and out

/Brian

2008/11/30 Jacob Santos <wordpress at santosj.name>

> The way I worked around this was to chown all of the files to the user of
> the webserver and modify the permissions. That way I don't require to enter
> in the FTP credentials.
>
> I may mention that I have access to shell and root, which you might require
> in order to use my solution.
>
> Jacob Santos
>
> bosmail at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Not sure if my reply-mail got through - So heres a copy
>> ---
>> Yes, I can see that the new owner of the installed plugins through the
>> plugins installer is "Webserver" instead of "You". But since I can't get
>> it
>> to work with getmyuid, I'll just have to see if posix_getuid will cause
>> any
>> future problems.
>>
>> Any suggestions appreciated though
>>
>>
>> /Brian
>>
>>
>> 2008/11/30 Peter Westwood <peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk>
>>
>>
>>
>>> bosmail at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm using servage.net hosting and I'm having problems with auto
>>>> updater.
>>>> I've found a workaround her:
>>>> http://vanonet.com/2008/09/servage-wordpress-plugin-autoupgrade-problem/
>>>>
>>>> By changing the below string in wp-admin/include/file.php
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   if ( getmyuid() == fileowner($temp_file) )
>>>>
>>>> to
>>>>
>>>>   if ( posix_getuid() == fileowner($temp_file) )
>>>>
>>>> I'm not aware of the exact consequences, if any, but it solved the
>>>> problem
>>>> in both 2.6.5 and 2.7-almost-rc-9965
>>>>
>>>> If the above string could be changed permanently it would be of great
>>>> help
>>>> to users with the same problem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Not sure thats wise.
>>>
>>> getmyuid — Gets PHP script owner's UID
>>> posix_getuid — Return the real user ID of the current process
>>>
>>> The purpose of the code you have changed is to determine whether or not
>>> the
>>> updater can use direct file access to update the files whilst still
>>> keeping
>>> the permissions suitable for you to be able to access the files by ftp
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> This is why we use getmyuid as that gets the owner of the files - i.e.
>>> you
>>>
>>> Using posix_getuid probably gets the webserver user which means you don't
>>> own the files any more!
>>>
>>> You should still be able to do the upgrades/installs using one of the ftp
>>> filesystem abstractions.
>>>
>>> westi
>>>
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