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MikeSkril
MikeSkril

Reputation: 77

Wordpress - The ssh2 PHP extension is not available

I use SSH keys in my wp-config since a long time. Updates, plugin installation and removal, all worked well. After the last apt-get update wp is asking for the FTP password when I try to install for example a plugin. There was no change done to the wp installation nor the file or directory permissions. I did not update wp either.

define('FTP_PUBKEY','/home/wp-user/wp_rsa.pub');
define('FTP_PRIKEY','/home/wp-user/wp_rsa');
define('FTP_USER','wp-user'); define('FTP_PASS','');
define('FTP_HOST','127.0.0.1:22');

Ubuntu 14.04 WORDPRESS VERSION: 4.7.6

PHP VERSION: 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.22

WEB SERVER INFO: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.0.1f enter image description here

EDIT:

I added below to my wp-config to see if it changes something.

define('FS_METHOD', 'ssh2');

No I'm getting a different error message in the WP backend: The ssh2 PHP extension is not available

...but ssh2 is installed and loaded:

# php -m |grep ssh2
ssh2

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4375

Answers (1)

MikeSkril
MikeSkril

Reputation: 77

Seems to be a bug in libssh2-php... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php-ssh2/+bug/1617294

Installing the WP plugin below allows me again to install/update as before.

https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/ssh-sftp-updater-support/#description

Upvotes: 1

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