Comments on: How To Fix FTP Connection Error on Localhost WordPress

By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:50:44 +0000

Jose, I don’t really get what your exact problem is here. The article deals with file system permissions instead of domain problems.
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By: Xous

Xous — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:45:38 +0000

Hi, regarding author comment
“NOTE: June 18 2009. I’m still getting alot of traffic on this post… what is it that you’re looking for, exactly? Leave a comment, I’ll check into it if I can.”

I’ll tell you my exact problem.

1) Installed wordpress in a WAMP environment, that would be localhost. So somewhere you say that your hostname is ‘localhost’.
2) tried to upload the wp in a hosting, so I’ll have an address like ‘www.mysite.com’, BUT …. when I try to get to ‘www.mysite.com/wp-admin’, it forwards to:
http://localhost/wp-admin and says error…. and never can connect to the admin to change the value.

So that’s what basically I’m looking for, and probably what most users getting here are also looking for
Thanks in advance!
Jose

By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:38:26 +0000

@Ricky – Thanks for this excellent reference! I’ll do some work on this article this week.
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By: Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:04:26 +0000

I was looking for a fix for the “wordpress asks for connection information” on localhost problem. Turned out what I had actually needed was here:
http://www.viper007bond.com/2009/05/07/wordpress-how-to-force-direct-filewrites-for-upgrades/
in the added last 3 lines of the post.

There’s suprisingly little information on that on the net. I’m running under XAMMP on OS X, just a test install of 2.9-rare.

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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:02:35 +0000

Scott,

Each WordPress installation has a set of constants that are defined. For example, WP_PLUGIN_DIR is defined as the location on the filesystem where your plugin directory resides. This location is obtained using dirname(__FILE__) php function (IIRC, didn’t look it up). You can see where WP_PLUGIN_DIR is defined and used here:

http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/nav.html?_functions/index.html

For more information, poke around the constants listing for the source.

I will also have a plugin available soon which you can use to display your paths within your admin area. Watch for it on the plugins page.

By: Scott Crevier

Scott Crevier — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:43:43 +0000

I get the “Connection Information” screen when attempting to upgrade a plugin automatically. I’m fine with providing the requested info, but it doesn’t work. And I’m quite sure I know why. The “Connection Information” screen doesn’t ask me what directory the web site is installed in. When I manually ftp to my site, it drops me into my home directory. I then change into the document_root of the web site I want to work on. I have a couple dozen web sites on this one account, all using the same ftp user. So how does Wordpress know what directory to change into? Can I set that somewhere? Does it assume that the home directory is also the document_root? Is this info documented somewhere?