Hello. I have recently purchased a VPS and DirectAdmin from a new hosting company. After they set it up, I installed Wordpress, intending to make a Wordpress Network site using their multisite functions. However, I have run into trouble with this.
Wordpress is capable of performing auto-upgrades in which it goes (behind the scenes) to the external website (wordpress.org), gets an updated plugin or a new theme, and uploads it in the wordpress installation. This is normally an automatic process. If wordpress is unable to find its own directories it will ask for ftp information.
When it popped up the ftp information screen I wondered what the cause could be. Connecting through ssh I discovered (using the "top" command) that httpd is not being run by root, but is being run (in a varying number of instances by - Apache). This confuses me (I'm not very knowledgeable in using ssh) because I thought that Apache could only run child instances of httpd; however, it doesn't show any instance of httpd being run by root.
Out of curiousity, I ran chown -R apache /home which then fixed Wordpress - it was able to autoinstall themes and plugins without issue. Of course, I can't leave it chowned this way because then my admin user is unable to access anything in the file manager.
The multisites also have issues, they appear in subfolders, but they do not seem able to access the site themes and they show no css.
Any ideas? I'm at a bit of a loss. Thanks!
Wordpress is capable of performing auto-upgrades in which it goes (behind the scenes) to the external website (wordpress.org), gets an updated plugin or a new theme, and uploads it in the wordpress installation. This is normally an automatic process. If wordpress is unable to find its own directories it will ask for ftp information.
When it popped up the ftp information screen I wondered what the cause could be. Connecting through ssh I discovered (using the "top" command) that httpd is not being run by root, but is being run (in a varying number of instances by - Apache). This confuses me (I'm not very knowledgeable in using ssh) because I thought that Apache could only run child instances of httpd; however, it doesn't show any instance of httpd being run by root.
Out of curiousity, I ran chown -R apache /home which then fixed Wordpress - it was able to autoinstall themes and plugins without issue. Of course, I can't leave it chowned this way because then my admin user is unable to access anything in the file manager.
The multisites also have issues, they appear in subfolders, but they do not seem able to access the site themes and they show no css.
Any ideas? I'm at a bit of a loss. Thanks!
