Wordpress on Ubuntu install plugins without FTP access
One of three things:
- Either change permissions so your web server can read the wp-content directory, which should be fine for a development server.
- Run PHP as FastCGI which can run as a different user than your web server.
- Install the ssh extension for PHP (
sudo apt-get install libssh2-phpon ubuntu on think)
Execute this command on your ubuntu terminal
sudo chown -R www-data /var/www
I was not satisfied with any of these answers so I kept on searching. I found an answer that was so simple I was surprised it had not been mentioned already.
https://askubuntu.com/a/826805/145472
This answer says to add a line to wp-config.php
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');Job done. I cannot take credit for knowing this but I do feel it needs a mention here too.