Timeline for WordPress update fails with a "permission denied" error?
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| Apr 9, 2020 at 17:31 | comment | added | Tom J Nowell♦ |
It tells you in the error message, /var/www/html/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php. 777 is a dangerous permission to set as it means anybody can write to that file, regardless of who they are, and anybody can execute it. E.g. JPEG files uploaded could be executed. Also, it isn't WP that is displaying the error, it's PHP. You would get the same error if Drupal or Joomla tried to write to that file. As I said in my answer, this isn't about guessing the correct 3 numbers to use. Ownership and groups are likely the problem, and you've given no info on what group the files and the user are in.
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| Apr 9, 2020 at 15:39 | comment | added | Rick9004 | Thanks... For testing I made all files and folder 777 in the site. I made sure that all users on Apache, PHP were in a common group. BTW this is a test site. Same error occurred . I would love to know the file or folder that the WP is trying to create, but I cannot determine it. WP does not issue any other error info other than the message I have already documented. | |
| Apr 3, 2020 at 11:58 | history | answered | Tom J Nowell♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |