[wp-hackers] Backup plugin and writability

[Elliotte Harold]

I enabled the WordPress 2.0 backup plugin and tried to backup. I got 
these two messages:

WARNING: Your wp-content directory is NOT writable! We can not create 
the backup directory.
/var/www/cafe/wp-content/backup-05ad9/

WARNING: Your backup directory is NOT writable! We can not create the 
backup directory.
/var/www/cafe/


1. Why is it trying to writing anything to /var/www/cafe/? 
/var/www/cafe/wp-content/backup-05ad9/ I understand, but /var/www/cafe 
shouldn't need to be written.

2. Why isn't it using /usr/tmp for temporary files like a good Unix program?

3. Is there any way to configure it to tell it to use this location instead?

I'm very nervous about making directories world writable just so 
WordPress can muck with them.


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