I have just installed wordpress, and I would like to also install a theme. Unfortunately I am asked for an FTP username and password, when trying to install it from the admin interface.
As I understand this is only the case if the 'wp-content' is not writeable. However in my case this folder is writable:
Wordpress installed in /var/www/html/wp/, and these are the permissions:
Permissions for /var/www/html/wp:
drwxrwsr-x 5 wordpress www-data 4096 Oct 26 09:30 wp
Permissions for the content of /var/www/html/wp:
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 418 Sep 25 2013 index.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 19935 Jan 2 2017 license.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 7413 Dec 12 2016 readme.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 5447 Sep 27 2016 wp-activate.php
drwxr-sr-x 9 wordpress www-data 4096 Sep 19 21:21 wp-admin
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 364 Dec 19 2015 wp-blog-header.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 1627 Aug 29 2016 wp-comments-post.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 3138 Oct 26 09:28 wp-config.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 2853 Dec 16 2015 wp-config-sample.php
drwxrwsrwx 6 www-data www-data 4096 Oct 29 22:38 wp-content
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 3286 May 24 2015 wp-cron.php
drwxr-sr-x 18 wordpress www-data 12288 Sep 19 21:21 wp-includes
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 2422 Nov 21 2016 wp-links-opml.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 3301 Oct 29 22:38 wp-load.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 34327 May 12 17:12 wp-login.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 8048 Jan 11 2017 wp-mail.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 16200 Apr 6 2017 wp-settings.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 29924 Jan 24 2017 wp-signup.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 4513 Oct 14 2016 wp-trackback.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 wordpress www-data 3065 Aug 31 2016 xmlrpc.php
Can anybody provide me a hint why the installation does not work out of the box, and why the ftp user & pass is required?
Thanks, Gerald
