Topic: Howto update Wordpress core / plugins

[EdelingF]

I've installed several Wordpress-blogs in /opt with SiteMaker. Every time some plugin is updated, it costs me a lot of time updating them manually.
In Wordpress you have the ability to 'automaticly' update the core or plugins by using FTP.
But I can't seem to make it work.
I activated FTP-access in ServerManager, filled in the root name and password, which is denied.
If I fill in the administrator name and password I get : Can't localize the WordPress contentmap (wp-content).
Has anyone any experience with Wordpress on SME 7.4 and FTP-access?

[cactus]

I've installed several Wordpress-blogs in /opt with SiteMaker. Every time some plugin is updated, it costs me a lot of time updating them manually.
In Wordpress you have the ability to 'automaticly' update the core or plugins by using FTP.
But I can't seem to make it work.
I activated FTP-access in ServerManager, filled in the root name and password, which is denied.
If I fill in the administrator name and password I get : Can't localize the WordPress contentmap (wp-content).
Has anyone any experience with Wordpress on SME 7.4 and FTP-access?

My guess is it will try and write the temporay copy to the /tmp folder and apart from that there most likely are some permission errors and PHPBaseDir restrictions you are running into, the log files should tell you what problems you are hitting, most likely /var/log/httpd/error_log and /var/log/httpd/access_log and perhaps /var/log/messages.

But far easier, log in as root download a copy and follow the update instructions on the wordpress site which are almost linked from your blogs admin page AFAIK.

[EdelingF]

So what you mean is that securitywise it's better to just upgrade the old way than to change permissions on SME to make automatic upgrading work?

I saw in the log-files that someone was trying to find acces to one of my sites, trying to locate PHPadmin. That woke me up........