Hi guys , have you ever tried downloading wordpress on your local server and try to activate a plugin only for you to get a form

requiring you to add your ftp details like the image below , here is a quick solution


navigate to your wordpress folder , I will assume you are using apache



$ cd /var/www/html/


$ ls lart

// to view the list of the dir lets assume your worpress folder is the one below


drwxrwxr-x 7 plumptre plumptre 4.0K Feb 17 13:17 wordpress



//all you need to do is to do chown using the apache name



$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data wordpress



// so the folder will look something like this


drwxrwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4.0K Feb 17 12:45 wordpress



Then you are good to go .

Inorder to figure out the apache name you can just put the code below in a file


<?php echo(exec(" whoami " ) ) ; ?>

like in my case this echoed www-data

Hope this helped

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