Comments on: Upload Permissions for Wordpress in Plesk

By: Stuart Turner

Stuart Turner — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:40:04 +0000

Hi,

Very useful – cured my upload / install plugins issue once and for all!

Kind regards,

- Stuart

By: Lothar

Lothar — Sat, 08 May 2010 16:43:26 +0000

How dangerous is it to set the permissions to “777″?

By: Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:29:40 +0000

Hi Jason,
I think I will need to move that account to my own VPS, I don’t have any issues with it (has suPHP installed). I didn’t really want to because the host is so fast and located locally, but with caching and a local edge server for files it should be fine.
Thanks for the tips! I really appreciate it!
Matt

By: Jason Diehl

Jason Diehl — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:49:01 +0000

Do you have Safe Mode turned off? That should solve your problem if Safe Mode is turned on currently. If you are in shared hosting then you might not be able to turn it off. If you cannot turn Safe Mode off you would only have 3 Options:
1) Move to a VPS host where you have more flexibility and control over your own environment.
2) Manually upload files via FTP instead of using the Wordpress interface.
3) Ask your host to set all files in your web directory to be owned by Apache.
The third option is not preferred, because you won’t be able to edit any files except through the Wordpress interface. You’ll have to request your host to change it back if you want to edit any files via FTP. The first option might be the most preferred if you have the funds and knowledge to cover the potentially additional expense.

By: Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:20:08 +0000

Hi! I have been having the same issue as well, folders can’t be created with mixed ownership and Plesk doesn’t support suPHP yet I don’t think.

This is really bugging me because I can’t easily install plugins.

777 on the plugins directory doesn’t work either!