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| Directory | Purpose | Access | Tech Notes |
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| /wp-content/plugins/ | Plugins are dropped in here. | Administrator and developers. | The plugin can be installed through WordPress Administration two ways,
Option 2 does not work out of the box unless the owner of the directory is www-data. me, but I suspect it is due to having set in php open_basedir which does not have a writable temporary folder. This can be resolved by specifying upload_tmp_dir which must reside in open_basedir and also where www-data has rwx access. |
| /opt/wordpress/tmp | ... |
To setup these permissions with ACLs as the staff user,
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