I just installed my first Wordpress site on Linode, and am having trouble using the Automatic Upgrade feature. When it asks for my FTP credentials, I use my node's IP address as the host, and my root username and password. I still get the error "Failed to connect to FTP Server 192.xxx". I've tried selecting both the FTP and FTPS options, and I get the same thing for both.

Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

Unless you have installed an FTP server you will not be able to use this upgrade method.

Personally I did install pure-ftp.. some will advise against that for security reasons..

What I do is log in via ssh, chown the wordpress files to whatever user the web server is running under, run the update, then chown them back.

No need for a ftp server that way.

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Wordpress's automatic upgrade thing fails if the files aren't writeable by PHP, and it gives the "FTP Denied" message as a result - go figure.

chown the files to the correct user and the auto upgrade thing will work.

-Chris

Can't CURL (php5-curl) do that for you? At least it's OK for me

Something new every day, thanks for that!



Care to elaborate please?