Comments on: WordPress Automatic Update with SSH

By: Chris Larkin

Chris Larkin — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:38:18 +0000

Thanks this is great. I agree, no reason to use ftp on VPS. Wonderful solution to let you keep site updated easily without having to compromise and use ftp.

By: kbeezie

kbeezie — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:50:45 +0000

Well normally if you’re using PHP running as root (like I did for a while, but php-fpm doesn’t let you run as root), then you wouldn’t need to chown the webroot to a different user, as root controls all. However if you’re running php as a different user such as www-data, or nobody, you’d have to change the ownership/permission of the files to allow it to work.

By: Ivan Tamayo

Ivan Tamayo — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:42:18 +0000

It worked for me (VPS running CentOS 5.5, Nginx), and I didn’t need to make the changes that Evert made.

Thanks so much!

By: Evert Mouw

Evert Mouw — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:28:41 +0000

Works for me.

I use FTP_HOST = localhost and because it’s my own server, I just use the primary RSA keys in /etc/ssh

Also, I use, in the web directory of my Ubuntu server:
chgrp -R www-data .
chmod -R g+w .

Thanks!