Can't Upgrade Wordpress

[djsteven77]

Same problem appeared with me yesterday and yes I understand now why it happened. I was as root unzipping and copying Wordpress to a coule of domains.

Still it leaves the question open for me what the smartest solution is to fix things. Can I easily alter the rights through ssh so that the folder creation works smoothly (every domain I have installed Wordpress on has its own seperate ftp login)? Or should I wipe all Wordpress installs and start all over again? (which wouldn't be much of a problem because they are all new installs with no activity on it yet)

[Trentor]

Keep in mind, If you extract the files using SSH command (unzip filename.zip or tar zxf filename.tar.gz the file will be owned by the user that extracted it). CMIIW
If you extract the files using SSH account, root user for example, a normal hosting account can not modify / remove / rename the files because they are not from the same group. Do you get what I mean?

Thank you very much!!

I had some problems with Wordpress after unzip the initial file inside a SSH. Problem solved erasing old installation and uploading the files using FTP.

Thanks again!!

[demian]

anothe way

Do not perform any operations on user folders as root
When you want to unpack operation or performance proveki browser from the console, you can give a user permission to access ssh

this can be done through a web interface, logging in as user admin

PS: user root only from update system and fix system settings(only if your known what you do)