[wp-hackers] Checking getmyuid results in problems?

[Baki Goxhaj]

Thanks for that Berry - it seems to do the trick - but I still get this:

Unpacking the update…
>
> Installing the latest version…
>
> *Removing the old version of the plugin…*
>
> *Could not remove the old plugin.*
>
> *Plugin upgrade failed.*
>

Kindly,

Baki Goxhaj
www.wplancer.com | www.banago.info | www.lintuts.com


On 15 November 2010 15:22, Berry Langerak <berry at ayavo.nl> wrote:

> Hi.
>
>
> On 11/15/2010 03:15 PM, Baki Goxhaj wrote:
>
>> I use XAMPP on Ubuntu too and I cannot do automatic upgrades of plugins or
>> WP itself either. I was mad when the team got the WordPres importer out of
>> core as I had to download it every time I needed it. Basically I have a
>> set
>> of plugins downloaded from browser and I use them and have not bother to
>> ask
>> to make this one automatic. But if there is a hack to make upgrades work
>> on
>> local machines, I would use that for sure.
>>
>
> There is: you can define( 'FS_METHOD', 'direct' ) somewhere in config,
> which would result in the bypassing of the getmyuid( ) == fileowner( ) call
> altogether. My most important question is why there is no notice of this,
> unless you Google around a lot :)
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Berry.
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