Virtualmin, WordPress and uploading and updating of Plugins and Themes permission

First a question, when you say you "deployed a LAMP server", did you use the Virtualmin installer script? It's highly recommended to do that on a minimal and clean grade-A supported OS as per Virtualmin's download page.

Since you have FCGI enabled (which is good), the owner of the directories where Wordpress needs to write files needs to be the virtual server owner user, since the PHP scripts will run as that user, and permissions to that (and all parent directories starting at /home!) need to allow write operations to it. Since Apache is usually added to the virtual server owner group, the group owner of the directory should be the server owner group, and the group needs read access to Apache can read the folder if required (for non-PHP access).

If that doesn't help, can you elaborate the problem? What directories/files does Wordpress try to write, what errors do you get, does it really run as the virtual server owner user (verify the ps aux output for the fcgi wrapper process)?

Greetings,

Kindly appreciate any help on this issue.

I installed Virtualmin with installer script. I installed on a minimal and clean grade-A supported OS . My OS is Centos7.2. I also did the same tests with Centos 6.9. The FCGI enabled as well. The Wordpress installed under /home/domainname/public_html. The owner of the directories where Wordpress needs to write files IS the virtual server owner user, all parent directories starting at /home. Is the same user. The owner of the domain. The permissions set to 755 on all the files of the domain home directory.

Here is the output:

[root@srv public_html]# pwd /home/example/public_html

[root@srv public_html]# ls -lah total 208K drwxr-xr-x 6 example example 4.0K Mar 12 15:51 . drwxr-xr-x 11 example example 4.0K Mar 12 15:38 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 35 Mar 12 15:38 .htaccess -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 418 Mar 12 15:37 index.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 20K Mar 12 15:50 license.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 7.3K Mar 12 15:50 readme.html drwxr-xr-x 2 example example 4.0K Mar 12 15:36 stats -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 5.4K Mar 12 15:37 wp-activate.php drwxr-xr-x 9 example example 4.0K Mar 12 15:37 wp-admin -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 364 Mar 12 15:37 wp-blog-header.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 1.6K Mar 12 15:37 wp-comments-post.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 3.1K Mar 12 15:37 wp-config.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 2.8K Mar 12 15:37 wp-config-sample.php drwxr-xr-x 6 example example 4.0K Mar 12 15:51 wp-content -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 3.6K Mar 12 15:37 wp-cron.php drwxr-xr-x 18 example example 12K Mar 12 15:37 wp-includes -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 2.4K Mar 12 15:37 wp-links-opml.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 3.3K Mar 12 15:37 wp-load.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 36K Mar 12 15:37 wp-login.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 7.9K Mar 12 15:37 wp-mail.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 16K Mar 12 15:37 wp-settings.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 30K Mar 12 15:37 wp-signup.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 4.6K Mar 12 15:37 wp-trackback.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 3.0K Mar 12 15:37 xmlrpc.php

I'm not able to publish the website from wordpress. Error message:

Looks like something’s gone wrong. Wait a couple seconds, and then try again.

Also I'm not able to upload any image on the site.

Here is the error message:

HTTP error.

Please share some light on this.

Greetings,

Kindly appreciate any help on this issue.

I installed Virtualmin with installer script.

I installed on a minimal and clean grade-A supported OS .

My OS is Centos7.2. I also did the same tests with Centos 6.9.

The FCGI enabled as well.

The Wordpress installed under /home/domainname/public_html.

The owner of the directories where Wordpress needs to write files IS the virtual server owner user, all parent directories starting at /home. Is the same user.

The owner of the domain. T

he permissions set to 755 on all the files of the domain home directory.

Here is the output:

[root@srv public_html]# pwd

/home/example/public_html

[root@srv public_html]# ls -lah

total 208K

drwxr-xr-x 6 example example 4.0K Mar 12 15:51 .

drwxr-xr-x 11 example example 4.0K Mar 12 15:38 ..

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 35 Mar 12 15:38 .htaccess

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 418 Mar 12 15:37 index.php

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 20K Mar 12 15:50 license.txt

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 7.3K Mar 12 15:50 readme.html

drwxr-xr-x 2 example example 4.0K Mar 12 15:36 stats

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 5.4K Mar 12 15:37 wp-activate.php

drwxr-xr-x 9 example example 4.0K Mar 12 15:37 wp-admin

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 364 Mar 12 15:37 wp-blog-header.php

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 1.6K Mar 12 15:37 wp-comments-post.php

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 3.1K Mar 12 15:37 wp-config.php

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 2.8K Mar 12 15:37 wp-config-sample.php

drwxr-xr-x 6 example example 4.0K Mar 12 15:51 wp-content

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 3.6K Mar 12 15:37 wp-cron.php

drwxr-xr-x 18 example example 12K Mar 12 15:37 wp-includes

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 2.4K Mar 12 15:37 wp-links-opml.php

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 3.3K Mar 12 15:37 wp-load.php

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 36K Mar 12 15:37 wp-login.php

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 7.9K Mar 12 15:37 wp-mail.php

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 16K Mar 12 15:37 wp-settings.php

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 30K Mar 12 15:37 wp-signup.php

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 4.6K Mar 12 15:37 wp-trackback.php

-rwxr-xr-x 1 example example 3.0K Mar 12 15:37 xmlrpc.php

I'm not able to publish the website from wordpress. Error message:

Looks like something’s gone wrong. Wait a couple seconds, and then try again.

Also I'm not able to upload any image on the site.

Here is the error message:

HTTP error.

Please share some light on this.

This is for better view.