Wordpress permission problems in centOS

Question

I've installed wordpress on Centos (apache) and i was having problems to let wordpress automatically perform certain tasks like updating plugins and making changing to theme files in editor. I studied about permissions in wordpress codex and i made changes to the files permission in my /var/www/html directory. I set all the directories to 0775 and all the files for 0664 but the thing is still not working.

I think that it has something to do with the users. I think that wordpress is not set as the appropriate users to do those tasks. Please tell me what to do.

Answer 1

It sounds like it's an issue with ownership rather than permissions.

Login using SSH.

Run the following command:

sudo chown apache:apache /var/www/html

This changes the ownership of your web root to the web server allowing WordPress to write files (perform automatic updates etc).