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hi,

i need to create a wordpress user on the b2. wordpress 3.0 beta 1 which i seem to be a beta tester of needs to have ftp sessions with the server and subsequently needs a username login ect...

i believe the home folder for wordpress (the new user named wordpress) needs to be /usr/share/wordpress so that the wordpress admin can load and remove files under that directory from the wordpress admin panel.

so i want to create a new user named wordpress who's home folder is /usr/share/wordpress.

please advise.

I am running Wordpress 2.9.2 This also uses FTP to perform upgrades, but I can use any username/password combination to update. The Wordpress-files are stored in \home\web and not in a seperate usr/share/wordpress directory. It may be that wordpress 3.0 is very different from 2.9 though.

hi,

i was using 2.9.2 with the 5min install but after allot of work could not get custom permalinks to work.

yes i know about .htaccess files and AllowOverride in apache2.conf

subsequently i have installed using apt-get install wordpress which installs only v. 2.0.12. but custom permalinks does work when wordpress was installed like this.

the good news is i have found that i can upgrade to 3.0 beta 1 by deleting the database and a config file, unpacking the 3.0 beta .zip in /usr/share and then running the regular wordpress setup instructions from there.

thus my wordpress files are in /usr/share/wordpress with only a symbolic link to that location from /home/web. (i think it would follow the link wouldn't it?)

when i try to install plugins 3.0 beta 1 (3.0b1) it prompts for ftp login so i give it b2 admin and password after which it tells me that it cannot find wp-contents dir. my speculation is that because the ftp session opens in the admin home dir as usual for an ftp session where 3.0b1 cannot find the expected wp-config dir because its in /usr/share/wordpress and there is no link to it there.

perhaps i could try a sym link from /home/admin to /usr/share/wordpress?

speculating again i am beginning to believe that there should be a wordpress user or group to facilitate reading and writing to files in the wp tree in a more secure manner. otherwise security is eroded by reducing permission requirements enabling all to read and write to those files.

only root and the wordpress user or group should be able to write to the bulk of files in the wp tree otherwise there is reduced security.

i think that the ftp prompt is a hook for the addition of a wordpress user or group for this purpose that no one has caught yet. speculating again that with 3.0b1; one may not be able to simple enter any ftp user credentials and get the theme or plugin installed like they used to in previous versions.

i wonder if a sym link from /home/admin to /usr/share/wordpress would work?

hi,

i have created a wordpress user with a symbolic link from his home (/home/wordpress) to /usr/share/wordpress but when wordpress ftps to wordpress home dir it does not follow the sym-link. is there a way to set default ftp dir for the wordpress user to /usr/share/wordpress rather than /home/wordpress?