[wp-hackers] Automatically Updating WordPress via SSH

[Jeffrey Nolte]

Thanks Dion.  I actually checked that out as well and was thinking of going that route as well.   

Jeffrey Nolte

On Apr 30, 2012, at 8:25 PM, "Dion Hulse (dd32)" <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:

> Also as a FYI, instead of running a PHP Module (as core WordPress
> requires) you can use a Plugin to enable a PHP-only mode using
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ssh-sftp-updater-support/
> 
> On 1 May 2012 09:49, Jeffrey Nolte <jnolte at getmoxied.net> wrote:
>> On Apr 30, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Stas Sușcov wrote:
>> 
>>> Probably totally offtopic, but did you consider another approach?
>>> Like use git[1] (because its faster and simple to set up) and a cron task.
>>> 
>>> No offense, but creating another user, enabling sftp and whatever else, seems like an overhead for me.
>>> 
>>> [1]: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress
>> This would work for WordPress but not plugins.  Another issue is at time people need to update WP without the technical know how of GIT.
>> 
>>> 
>>> În data de Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:31:52 +0300, Jeffrey Nolte <jnolte at getmoxied.net> a scris:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Otto,
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you for the quick reply.  I did restart everything except for php5-fpm which did the trick after a restart.  After some more research into this method it seems it may not be very secure. Does anyone have any thoughts or opinions on this?
>>>> 
>>>> I am planning on implementing a user specifically for WordPress access via FTP to allow for automated upgrading of plugins and core.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks again,
>>>> 
>>>> Jeff
>>>> On Apr 30, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Otto wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Dumb question: Did you restart your webserver after making the change?
>>>>> Extension has to get loaded and such, and if you didn't restart, then
>>>>> the FastCGI processes holding your PHP processes won't have reloaded
>>>>> and the INI won't have been read.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The check in core to make the option appear is this:
>>>>> 
>>>>> if ( extension_loaded('ssh2') && function_exists('stream_get_contents') )
>>>>> 
>>>>> So make sure you have streams enabled too.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Otto
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Jeffrey Nolte <jnolte at getmoxied.net> wrote:
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