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

[Timothy P Clark <timclark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron,

I haven't done much work with WordPress, but referring to the code snippet 
in the blog entry that you referenced in your original post and the 
description of getmyuid() at 
http://php.net/manual/en/function.getmyuid.php, it seems to me that the 
problem is that the owner of the WordPress scripts is different than the 
profile running the web server.

        if( function_exists(âgetmyuidâ) && function_exists(âfileownerâ) ){
        $temp_file = wp_tempnam();
        if ( getmyuid() == fileowner($temp_file) )
        $method = âdirectâ;
        unlink($temp_file);
        }

As you can see, the important thing is that the owner of the newly created 
file (whose owner  I expect to be QTMHHTTP) is the same as the owner of 
the script file that is being executed (wp-admin/includes/file.php 
apparently).

I would check who owns wp-admin/includes/file.php and if it is other than 
QTMHHTTP, do a chown QTMHHTTP on (at least) wp-admin/includes/file.php.

Tim


> date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 14:18:20 -0600
> from: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: [WEB400] WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to
>    work without FTP
>
> Here are the authorities for wp-content, and actually the authorities 
all
> the way up to /www/zendsvr
>
>                              Work with Authority
>
> Object . . . . . . . . . . . . : /www/zendsvr/htdocs/wp_aaron/wp-content
> Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   DIR
> Owner  . . . . . . . . . . . . :   AARON
> Primary group  . . . . . . . . :   *NONE
> Authorization list . . . . . . :   *NONE
>
> Type options, press Enter.
>   1=Add user   2=Change user authority   4=Remove user
>
>                    Data     --Object Authorities--
> Opt  User        Authority  Exist  Mgt  Alter  Ref
>
>      *PUBLIC     *RWX         X     X     X     X
>      AARON       *RWX         X     X     X     X
>      NOBODY      *RWX         X     X     X     X
>      QPGMR       *RWX         X     X     X     X
>     QTCP        *RWX         X     X     X     X
>     QTMHHTP1    *RWX         X     X     X     X
>     QTMHHTTP    *RWX         X     X     X     X
>     WORDPRESS   *RWX         X     X     X     X
>     ZENDADMIN    *RWX        X     X    X    X
>
> Aaron Bartell
> www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
> www.OpenRPGUI.com
> www.SoftwareSavesLives.com
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Bryce Martin <BMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > Is an FTP server installed in Pase by default?  Could it be that you 
don't
> > have an FTP server running in PASE?  Also, the permissions on your
> > wp-content directory could be giving you issues, I would check those. 
Its
> > not considered safe to have wp-content left open with any write
> > permissions, so make sure that they didn't get changed.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Bryce Martin
> > Programmer/Analyst I
> > 570-546-4777