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

[Bryce Martin <BMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,
I think you may have hit it.  From his previous post it looks like his 
wordpress directory (and probably everything in it) is owned by AARON, not 
QTMHHTTP.


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
570-546-4777



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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