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Cambi8989
Cambi8989

Reputation: 83

How to fix 'Some files are not writable by WordPress' error, website cannot be changed by admin

I'm setting up a new website. most files are not editable by WordPress.

I am using a virtual machine on google cloud console. It's Ubuntu 18.04 LTS LAMP stack. I have tried editing permissions of the files through both Filezilla and the ssh prompt on gcloud. like it describes here. I think i have a different problem.

I am brand new and just learning so I'm sorry if the answer is obvious. I found that if I go in and manually set permissions for files to 775 in the SSH WordPress is able to edit some files. But i cannot edit permissions of some files even after i am in root sudo su

Upvotes: 8

Views: 16431

Answers (4)

Sibeesh Venu
Sibeesh Venu

Reputation: 21779

I was getting the same error "Some files are not writable by WordPress: wp-load.php" recently as I moved to a different host provider. The error was shown in the Site Health window from WordPress.

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To fix this, all you have to do is to change the permission of the file(s). You can do this easily by using the tool called FileZilla. I use this tool for all my FTP actions.

Connect to your server and right-click on the file and select File permissions.

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And finally, change the permission to 0644.

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Upvotes: 0

chiddidilikahrn
chiddidilikahrn

Reputation: 141

My issue was Wordpress somehow wanted to use "apache" as the user. Changing the ownership from nginx:nginx (which is what runs my web daemon) to apache:nginx worked.

I recommend trying this on ONE file and confirming with the "site health" tool to make sure it is YOUR problem before doing a global change!

chown apache:nginx ./*.php

Upvotes: 2

Dimitrios Pantazis
Dimitrios Pantazis

Reputation: 454

Apart from permissions you have to change the Owner of the Files to the web server user ( most cases, especially those using apache www-data ) .

The command to do that is the below

$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/wordpress/

the usual path of a website on a ubuntu server is /var/www/domain.com/ but of course that depends !

Wish you the best!

Upvotes: 16

Mohamed Aldanaf
Mohamed Aldanaf

Reputation: 63

change all files and folders permission as follow:

enter your public_html folder and execute this two commands

find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;

find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;

Upvotes: 4

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