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

[William Davis]

Scott,
Have you changed any of your WordPress structure (i.e. is everything  
still in wp-admin and wp-content)?

William P. Davis
will.davis at gmail.com
207.660.5342
http://twitter.com/williampd
http://www.wpdavis.com



On Nov 8, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Scott R. Godin wrote:

> 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
>> http://twitter.com/williampd
>> 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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