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    <p>I am unable to install plugins on my Centos 6 VPS. When I attempt the install I get this:</p> <pre><code>Installing Plugin: BotDetect WordPress CAPTCHA 3.0.Beta1.7 Downloading install package from [web path to:]botdetect-wp-captcha.zip… Unpacking the package… Could not create directory. Return to Plugin Installer </code></pre> <p>UPDATE: This seems to have something to do with permissions -- I'm guessing there's some group that wordpress needs to be part of in order to change folders, create files, etc., but I can't figure out what that group should be. I have no www-data group -- I read something somewhere about this being a requirement. Can somebody tell me what groups and permissions need to exist for WP to operate?</p> <p>UPDATE: I have chmodded the permissions to my plugin and uploads folders to 777. I also have created an FTP user specifically for Wordpress and made the home directory for that user the same as my Wordpress root folder as recommended <a href="http://blog.noizeramp.com/2008/09/10/wordpress-unable-to-locate-wordpress-plugin-directory/" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>. I then changed these lines in the wp-config.php file from:</p> <pre><code>/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */ if ( !defined('ABSPATH') ) define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__ . "/")); /** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */ require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php'); </code></pre> <p>to:</p> <pre><code>/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */ if ( !defined('ABSPATH') ) define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__)); /** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */ require_once(ABSPATH . '/wp-settings.php'); </code></pre> <p>This should eliminate the double slash conflict mentioned <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/abspath-question" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>.</p> <p>Note -- I was also having a problem uploading media but that issues was resolved with the chmod to 777.</p> <p>Now when I try to install a plugin I get this:</p> <pre><code>Unable to locate WordPress Plugin directory.&lt;br&gt; Return to Plugin Installer </code></pre> <p>UPDATE: Per suggestions I have run chown -R on my wordpress directory and reverted my wp-config.php file back to this:</p> <pre><code>/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */ if ( !defined('ABSPATH') ) define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . "/"); /** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */ require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php'); </code></pre> <p>My permissions look like this. I still have the problem.</p> <pre><code>[root@ip-MY_IP/wordpress]# ls -l total 180 -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 418 Dec 16 07:07 index.php -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 19929 Dec 16 07:07 license.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 7183 Dec 16 07:07 readme.html drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Dec 17 14:57 tmp -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 4892 Dec 16 07:07 wp-activate.php drwxr-xr-x 9 apache apache 4096 Dec 16 07:07 wp-admin -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 271 Dec 16 07:07 wp-blog-header.php -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 4795 Dec 16 07:07 wp-comments-post.php -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 3087 Dec 16 07:07 wp-config-sample.php -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 3124 Dec 19 06:10 wp-config.php drwxr-xr-x 6 apache apache 4096 Dec 18 21:03 wp-content -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 2932 Dec 16 07:07 wp-cron.php drwxr-xr-x 12 apache apache 4096 Dec 16 07:07 wp-includes -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 2380 Dec 16 07:07 wp-links-opml.php -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 2359 Dec 16 07:07 wp-load.php -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 31909 Dec 16 07:07 wp-login.php -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 8235 Dec 16 07:07 wp-mail.php -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 10880 Dec 16 07:07 wp-settings.php -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 25665 Dec 16 07:07 wp-signup.php -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 4026 Dec 16 07:07 wp-trackback.php -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 3015 Dec 16 07:07 xmlrpc.php </code></pre>
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