Sudden permission issues virtualmin server wide - WordPress asks for FTP creds for multiple virtual servers?

Hi, So i have been fighting with this for days and no resolution so far.

All of the sudden for no apparent reason (i am aware of) all my wordpress sites now are asking for FTP creds when updating. This was never the case before a few days ago. I do not believe any server changes caused this as i didnt make any except to install php bc-math (then removed it as it wasnt really needed) -

As far as i can tell each vserver owns its own files (as the user) - It has always run FCGId.. as per http://www.chrisabernethy.com/why-wordpress-asks-connection-info/

---Also - I created a script (

<?php
 echo(exec("whoami"));
?>

) at http://truelabtest.com/test.php which shows it running as apache? but i believe this should be the user?

Any help here is HIGHLY appreciated to get this back working as it should.. Thanks! Scott

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Howdy -- it's possible this issue is related to this other one you have here:

https://virtualmin.com/node/34999

Let's try and resolve that other issue first, and see if doing that corrects this problem.

We discovered that the PHP version in use here comes from a third party repository, that is likely the cause of the problems being experienced.

The workaround described in the other post may resolve this issue as well.

You are correct it did correct the WP problem. Thank you so much

You are correct it did correct the WP problem. Thank you so much