FTP Username and Password for Wordpress?

Stanlex

Here's what I did.

Installed VMWare
Installed Ubuntu 12.04
Installed LAMP
Installed Wordpress
Created a Wordpress site

Now, I would like to change my theme but it asks me for Hostname, FTP Username and Password. I don't know what to type there.

Could anyone help please?

srsly78

Put in the ip address of your server, and valid credentials with access to wherever you installed wordpress.

Stanlex

srsly78 wrote: »

Put in the ip address of your server, and valid credentials with access to wherever you installed wordpress.

It's installed on a virtual machine on my laptop. So where can I find the IP Address of the server?

srsly78

ifconfig from console on your vm

OR

ipconfig from cmd prompt on windows host

OR

something else if you aren't hosting on windows

OR

open up properties of your vm and inspect it (depends on what vm software you are using)

Stanlex

srsly78 wrote: »

ifconfig

Yes but am I looking for my IP or a server IP?

srsly78

The vm will only report it's own ip.

If you run ipconfig on your host you will see ips for all network adapters, one of these will be the virtual one.

You haven't even specified what OS is running. I assume it's a linux VM... If so read this -> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-shell-command-to-find-get-ip-address/

Stanlex

srsly78 wrote: »

The vm will only report it's own ip.

If you run ipconfig on your host you will see ips for all network adapters, one of these will be the virtual one.

You haven't even specified what OS is running. I assume it's a linux VM... If so read this -> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-shell-command-to-find-get-ip-address/

is it any of these?



Also what do I enter for FTP Username and Password?

Stanlex

srsly78 wrote: »

The vm will only report it's own ip.

If you run ipconfig on your host you will see ips for all network adapters, one of these will be the virtual one.

You haven't even specified what OS is running. I assume it's a linux VM... If so read this -> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-shell-command-to-find-get-ip-address/

Let me start again.

I have Windows 8 on my laptop
I installed VMWare on my laptop
Then I installed Ubuntu 12.04 using VMware
Then I installed LAMP followed by Wordpress
Now, I'd like to change a theme in wordpress but it asks me for a hostname, ftp username and password.

I know how to check what IP a computer has but I dont know which one to use for the host, ftp etc.

The virtual machine is NAT so it doesnt have the same IP address as my laptop does.

Thank you.

srsly78

You have multiple virtual adapters, so the screenshot is ambiguous.

Just log into the vm and follow the instructions above. You will have to learn how to do basic stuff on linux.

Stanlex

srsly78 wrote: »

You have multiple virtual adapters, so the screenshot is ambiguous.

Just log into the vm and follow the instructions above. You will have to learn how to do basic stuff on linux.

Problem is solved. I bypassed the FTP by editing a .php file.

I know how to use basic Linux.

fcrossen

Wordpress asks for login details when it thinks it doesn't have write permissions to the wp-content folder.

If you are on a VM on a test machine (and are not sure of the user that Apache is running as - 'www-data'?) then you can make all files in wp-content world writable. ("chown -R o+w wp-content").

DO NOT DO THIS ON A SHARED HOST.

daymobrew

Stanlex wrote: »

Problem is solved. I bypassed the FTP by editing a .php file.

What file did you change?

fcrossen

Stanlex wrote: »

Problem is solved. I bypassed the FTP by editing a .php file.

I know how to use basic Linux.

"If you edit a Wordpress core file you're goanna have a baaadddd tiiiiime. 'nkay?"

Stanlex

fcrossen wrote: »

Wordpress asks for login details when it thinks it doesn't have write permissions to the wp-content folder.

If you are on a VM on a test machine (and are not sure of the user that Apache is running as - 'www-data'?) then you can make all files in wp-content world writable. ("chown -R o+w wp-content").

DO NOT DO THIS ON A SHARED HOST.

Exactly how I solved my problem. Thank you!

Stanlex

daymobrew wrote: »

What file did you change?

Post #11

daymobrew

Stanlex wrote: »

Post #11

That was a recursive chown - no editing of a php file.

Stanlex

daymobrew wrote: »

That was a recursive chown - no editing of a php file.

I changed the permissions of the folders in wp-content. After I done that, i wasn't asked for a Hostname, FTP Username and password.

The_B_Man

I'm pretty sure I did this before by putting in "localhost" instead of the IP and it worked grand.