Re: WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to work without FTP

Aaron,

I haven't done much work with WordPress, but referring to the code snippet
in the blog entry that you referenced in your original post and the
description of getmyuid() at
http://php.net/manual/en/function.getmyuid.php, it seems to me that the
problem is that the owner of the WordPress scripts is different than the
profile running the web server.

if( function_exists(âgetmyuidâ) && function_exists(âfileownerâ) ){
$temp_file = wp_tempnam();
if ( getmyuid() == fileowner($temp_file) )
$method = âdirectâ;
unlink($temp_file);
}

As you can see, the important thing is that the owner of the newly created
file (whose owner I expect to be QTMHHTTP) is the same as the owner of
the script file that is being executed (wp-admin/includes/file.php
apparently).

I would check who owns wp-admin/includes/file.php and if it is other than
QTMHHTTP, do a chown QTMHHTTP on (at least) wp-admin/includes/file.php.

Tim

date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 14:18:20 -0600
from: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to
work without FTP

Here are the authorities for wp-content, and actually the authorities

all

the way up to /www/zendsvr

Work with Authority

Object . . . . . . . . . . . . : /www/zendsvr/htdocs/wp_aaron/wp-content
Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . : DIR
Owner . . . . . . . . . . . . : AARON
Primary group . . . . . . . . : *NONE
Authorization list . . . . . . : *NONE

Type options, press Enter.
1=Add user 2=Change user authority 4=Remove user

Data --Object Authorities--
Opt User Authority Exist Mgt Alter Ref

*PUBLIC *RWX X X X X
AARON *RWX X X X X
NOBODY *RWX X X X X
QPGMR *RWX X X X X
QTCP *RWX X X X X
QTMHHTP1 *RWX X X X X
QTMHHTTP *RWX X X X X
WORDPRESS *RWX X X X X
ZENDADMIN *RWX X X X X

Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com



On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Bryce Martin <BMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

Is an FTP server installed in Pase by default? Could it be that you

don't

have an FTP server running in PASE? Also, the permissions on your
wp-content directory could be giving you issues, I would check those.

Its

not considered safe to have wp-content left open with any write
permissions, so make sure that they didn't get changed.


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
570-546-4777