Trouble Updating WordPress

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I am not sure what you just said there.

sudo chown www-data -R /var/www/html/blog

When I'm using WordPress, in my web browser, I am not sure if it is 
being run as www-data, since both are groups.

-Harmony
On 1/18/2018 11:03 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Your user either has to be whatever your webserver user is or at least
> has to be a member of that group.
>
> On 1/18/18, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hello, I am replying below in context.
>>
>> -Harmony
>>
>>
>> On 1/18/2018 4:50 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> Hi Harmony,
>>>
>>> Le 18/01/2018 à 11:31, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
>>>> sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} +
>>>>
>>>> sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} +
>>>>
>>>> I just tried installing a WordPress update, but after it unpacks it, it
>>>> says, cannot create directory, installation failed. Thank you for
>>>> creating with WordPress.
>>> If it says cannot create directory, that means that either the directory
>>> in which it tries to create another one is not writable (this shouldn't
>>> be the case if it's 755) or and more probably that the script that
>>> should create the new directory is run as an user not allowed to write
>>> in the parent directory.
>>>
>>> There is also he possibilty that the parent directory has been made
>>> immutable with chattr +i but this is unlikely. What is this scattr plus I?
>>>
>>> To find out please psot back the full output of:
>>> stat <dir>
>>> where <dir> is the path to the directory where the new one should be
>>> created (in other words its would be parent directory)
>>> root at vps:~# stat /var/www/html/blog
>>>     File: '/var/www/html/blog'
>>>     Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
>>> Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 475142      Links: 6
>>> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (   33/www-data)   Gid: (   33/www-data)
>>> Access: 2018-01-18 01:58:45.341397646 -0800
>>> Modify: 2017-12-16 15:55:35.489195850 -0800
>>> Change: 2018-01-18 01:53:27.961408696 -0800
>>>    Birth: -
>>> r
>>> Please tell us also as which user you are running the script that fails
>>> to create it.
>>> When I go to domain dot com slash blog slash wp-admin, I log in as my
>>> WordPress user account, which is the account I initially created. I run
>>> the update as the user that I'm logged in as.
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Didier
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