Re: WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to work without FTP

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron, you running this with ZEND.

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I like to use blogs for teaching people how to do things.  When you teach
> people how to do things, then they will hopefully come back for more and
> maybe even buy a product.  Some people call it marketing.
>
> Here's an example of teaching people how to do something simple, but
> useful,
> with technology: http://mowyourlawn.com/video/GmailFilter/index.html
>
> Aaron Bartell
> www.MowYourLawn.com/blog <http://www.mowyourlawn.com/blog>
> www.OpenRPGUI.com <http://www.openrpgui.com/>
> www.SoftwareSavesLives.com <http://www.softwaresaveslives.com/>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Maurice O'Prey <Maurice.Oprey@xxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
> > > > I was able to get WordPress up and running on my IBM i with relative
> > ease
> >
> > And the commercial benefits are?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was able to get WordPress up and running on my IBM i with relative ease
> > and now I want to install additional plugins.  The issue is that if the
> > user
> > profile used by the currently running script doesn't have access to the
> > folder where the plugin is going to be installed, then it will prompt you
> > for FTP login information.
> >
> > Here is an article that talks about the issue:
> http://hecode.com/why-wordpress-asks-for-connection-info-when-i-try-to-insta
> > ll-new-plugin/
> >
> > In the article then recommend creating a simple php script with the
> > following:
> >
> > echo exec('whoami');
> >
> > I did that, and it is executing successfully (no ZendServer error logs or
> > warnings) but it returns blanks, so that doesn't help.  I have even gone
> as
> > far as giving *PUBLIC all authority to the entire directory structure
> with
> > the following command (running V6R1):
> >
> >
> > CHGAUT OBJ('/www/zendsvr') USER(*PUBLIC) DTAAUT(*RWX) OBJAUT(*ALL)
> > SUBTREE(*ALL)
> >
> >
> > Still no go.
> >
> > Anybody else resolve this?
> > Aaron Bartell
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