[wp-hackers] plugin installs failing: "Could not create directory. /wp-content"

[Scott R. Godin]

According to the documentation at
	http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions

"NOTE: For the Automatic Upgrade/Install of Plugins/Themes and WordPress 
Upgrades, No special permissions need to be set. All WordPress files 
should remain owned by your user account (the user account the httpd 
runs as), You should NOT have to make them world writable(777). If you 
attempt to change the ownership/permissions of files in order to allow 
the upgrader to work, There is a high chance of bugs/issues poping up 
related to the incorrect permission scheme chosen."

I've set up a specific ftp/sftp user for this directory, and am using 
the correct password for it. It should 'just work' and the odd thing is, 
it WAS working correctly earlier, and nothing on the server should have 
been changed between the earlier plugin installs and now.

The files in the account all have user.group being the same: i.e. saying 
accountname is foo then an ls -l looks like
	drwxr-xr-x   6 foo foo  4096 Nov  4 13:46 wp-content/
so I don't believe 775 will work and I'm obviously loathe to try 777 for 
those directories. (wp-content/uploads/ IS 777 though)

Possible it could be anything else?

On 11/08/2010 11:48 AM, William Davis wrote:
> Scott,
> This looks to be a permissions problem. Make sure your wp-content and
> plugins folders have the correct permissions (try 775).
>
> Will
>
> William P. Davis
> will.davis at gmail.com
> 207.660.5342
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> http://www.wpdavis.com
>
>
>
> On Nov 8, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Scott R. Godin wrote:
>
>> Howdy plugin gurus,
>>
>> This just recently started happening, with both
>> http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/qoate-simple-code-snippets.zip
>> and
>> http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/syntax-highlighter-compress.zip
>>
>> both of which refused to install (tho I do not think it's directly
>> related to either of these plugins, myself) either via the interface
>> or manual upload to the interface, resulting in :
>>
>> Downloading install package from
>> http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/qoate-simple-code-snippets.zip…
>>
>> Unpacking the package…
>>
>> Could not create directory. /wp-content
>>
>> Actions: Return to Plugin Installer
>>
>> (of course if I simply unzip the folder and manually ftp/rsync it to
>> the server it works fine)
>>
>> I tried disabling every other active plugin and retrying the install
>> (earlier installs worked just fine) but the result is the same. What
>> could have changed to cause this, and how do I fix it?
>>
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