Comments on: LAMPP/XAMPP + WordPress: Asking for Connection Information to install plugins http://james.revillini.com/2010/04/24/lampp-xampp-wordpress-asking-for-connection-information-to-install-plugins/ Say 'no' to styrofoam. Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:07:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Harish Patel http://james.revillini.com/2010/04/24/lampp-xampp-wordpress-asking-for-connection-information-to-install-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-19388 Harish Patel Mon, 31 May 2010 13:51:02 +0000 http://james.revillini.com/?p=333#comment-19388 Okay sure, I will do googling for a next couple of days and when I will get a solution of this, I will definitely post here. Thank you. :-) Okay sure, I will do googling for a next couple of days and when I will get a solution of this, I will definitely post here. Thank you. :-)

]]> By: james http://james.revillini.com/2010/04/24/lampp-xampp-wordpress-asking-for-connection-information-to-install-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-19387 james Mon, 31 May 2010 11:20:00 +0000 http://james.revillini.com/?p=333#comment-19387 I don't know what else to check. Have you googled things like "lampp anonymous user" and checked the XAMPP/LAMPP forums? By the way, when you find a solution, can you post it back here so I can add it to my article? I don’t know what else to check. Have you googled things like “lampp anonymous user” and checked the XAMPP/LAMPP forums? By the way, when you find a solution, can you post it back here so I can add it to my article?

]]> By: Harish Patel http://james.revillini.com/2010/04/24/lampp-xampp-wordpress-asking-for-connection-information-to-install-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-19385 Harish Patel Mon, 31 May 2010 08:54:48 +0000 http://james.revillini.com/?p=333#comment-19385 Can you please help me in that what should I check into my system? or is there any other way to know about what anonymous web user is running behind the directory /www/wordpress/ ? Can you please help me in that what should I check into my system? or is there any other way to know about what anonymous web user is running behind the directory /www/wordpress/ ?

]]> By: james http://james.revillini.com/2010/04/24/lampp-xampp-wordpress-asking-for-connection-information-to-install-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-19372 james Tue, 25 May 2010 17:15:06 +0000 http://james.revillini.com/?p=333#comment-19372 No. When you run it at the command line, it tells you who you are. When you run it from PHP using the exec function, it tells you who the anonymous web user is. When you go to a web site, unless you log in, then you're an anonymous web user as far as the server is concerned. So it's not good enough to know what whoami returns when you enter it at the command prompt. No. When you run it at the command line, it tells you who you are. When you run it from PHP using the exec function, it tells you who the anonymous web user is. When you go to a web site, unless you log in, then you’re an anonymous web user as far as the server is concerned. So it’s not good enough to know what whoami returns when you enter it at the command prompt.

]]> By: Harish Patel http://james.revillini.com/2010/04/24/lampp-xampp-wordpress-asking-for-connection-information-to-install-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-19371 Harish Patel Tue, 25 May 2010 10:39:09 +0000 http://james.revillini.com/?p=333#comment-19371 I've tried to run whoami command from the following path from my system terminal window. (/var/www/wordpress/) However, it prints my system user name: "piyush" as a output. Do I need to set that name as a owner of word-press directory? I’ve tried to run whoami command from the following path from my system terminal window. (/var/www/wordpress/) However, it prints my system user name: “piyush” as a output. Do I need to set that name as a owner of word-press directory?

]]> By: james http://james.revillini.com/2010/04/24/lampp-xampp-wordpress-asking-for-connection-information-to-install-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-19370 james Mon, 24 May 2010 17:04:44 +0000 http://james.revillini.com/?p=333#comment-19370 That's really strange. You'll need to do some research on your system setup to figure out why that would happen. I'm on Ubuntu, and with a stock install of LAMPP, If I do that same thing and go to whoami.php, it prints "nobody" without the quotes. That's the user who needs to own the whole wordpress directory in order for you to be able to use the plugin installer and upgrade tools when testing locally. That's why we do the chown -R ... it CHanges OWNership Recursively. Then we chmod (CHange/MODify?) the permissions to read/write/execute for all system users so you can still edit the files. Yeah, I would start Googling about whoami returning 1, maybe see if you can figure out some other way to figure out who the default, anonymous web user is on your system, then chown the files to that user instead of "nobody." That’s really strange. You’ll need to do some research on your system setup to figure out why that would happen. I’m on Ubuntu, and with a stock install of LAMPP, If I do that same thing and go to whoami.php, it prints “nobody” without the quotes. That’s the user who needs to own the whole wordpress directory in order for you to be able to use the plugin installer and upgrade tools when testing locally. That’s why we do the chown -R … it CHanges OWNership Recursively. Then we chmod (CHange/MODify?) the permissions to read/write/execute for all system users so you can still edit the files.

Yeah, I would start Googling about whoami returning 1, maybe see if you can figure out some other way to figure out who the default, anonymous web user is on your system, then chown the files to that user instead of “nobody.”

]]> By: Harish Patel http://james.revillini.com/2010/04/24/lampp-xampp-wordpress-asking-for-connection-information-to-install-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-19369 Harish Patel Mon, 24 May 2010 11:02:31 +0000 http://james.revillini.com/?p=333#comment-19369 I ran the following URL: http://localhost/wordpress/whoami.php It only prints 1 as a output. I ran the following URL: http://localhost/wordpress/whoami.php
It only prints 1 as a output.

]]> By: james http://james.revillini.com/2010/04/24/lampp-xampp-wordpress-asking-for-connection-information-to-install-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-19368 james Sat, 22 May 2010 12:29:01 +0000 http://james.revillini.com/?p=333#comment-19368 That looks OK. Create a php file called whoami.php in that directory, and then paste this code into it <code><?php echo exec('whoami') or die("It doesn't work"); ?></code> Then navigate to it via http and let me know what it spits out. That looks OK. Create a php file called whoami.php in that directory, and then paste this code into it
< ?php
echo exec('whoami') or die("It doesn't work");
?>
Then navigate to it via http and let me know what it spits out.

]]> By: Harish Patel http://james.revillini.com/2010/04/24/lampp-xampp-wordpress-asking-for-connection-information-to-install-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-19363 Harish Patel Fri, 21 May 2010 06:18:31 +0000 http://james.revillini.com/?p=333#comment-19363 Output: ls -l /var/www/wordpress/ total 288 -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 397 2008-05-26 02:03 index.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 15410 2008-12-06 13:17 license.txt -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 7644 2010-02-14 01:05 readme.html drwxrwxrwx 8 nobody nogroup 4096 2010-02-15 22:22 wp-admin -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 40400 2009-10-25 16:02 wp-app.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 220 2008-10-14 11:52 wp-atom.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 274 2008-05-25 21:20 wp-blog-header.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 3928 2010-01-08 01:08 wp-comments-post.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 238 2008-10-14 11:52 wp-commentsrss2.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 2972 2010-05-18 18:46 wp-config.php drwxrwxrwx 5 nobody nogroup 4096 2010-05-20 19:09 wp-content -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 1253 2009-08-16 10:29 wp-cron.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 220 2008-10-14 11:52 wp-feed.php drwxrwxrwx 6 nobody nogroup 4096 2010-02-15 22:22 wp-includes -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 1946 2009-05-06 01:13 wp-links-opml.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 2341 2009-05-20 22:02 wp-load.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 22721 2009-12-15 03:39 wp-login.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 7578 2009-09-19 02:13 wp-mail.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 487 2009-04-21 03:20 wp-pass.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 218 2008-10-14 11:52 wp-rdf.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 316 2008-05-25 21:20 wp-register.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 220 2008-10-14 11:52 wp-rss2.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 218 2008-10-14 11:52 wp-rss.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 23097 2009-12-14 06:08 wp-settings.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 3693 2009-11-26 16:59 wp-trackback.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 93445 2009-12-01 13:44 xmlrpc.php Output:
ls -l /var/www/wordpress/
total 288
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 397 2008-05-26 02:03 index.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 15410 2008-12-06 13:17 license.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 7644 2010-02-14 01:05 readme.html
drwxrwxrwx 8 nobody nogroup 4096 2010-02-15 22:22 wp-admin
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 40400 2009-10-25 16:02 wp-app.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 220 2008-10-14 11:52 wp-atom.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 274 2008-05-25 21:20 wp-blog-header.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 3928 2010-01-08 01:08 wp-comments-post.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 238 2008-10-14 11:52 wp-commentsrss2.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 2972 2010-05-18 18:46 wp-config.php
drwxrwxrwx 5 nobody nogroup 4096 2010-05-20 19:09 wp-content
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 1253 2009-08-16 10:29 wp-cron.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 220 2008-10-14 11:52 wp-feed.php
drwxrwxrwx 6 nobody nogroup 4096 2010-02-15 22:22 wp-includes
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 1946 2009-05-06 01:13 wp-links-opml.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 2341 2009-05-20 22:02 wp-load.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 22721 2009-12-15 03:39 wp-login.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 7578 2009-09-19 02:13 wp-mail.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 487 2009-04-21 03:20 wp-pass.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 218 2008-10-14 11:52 wp-rdf.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 316 2008-05-25 21:20 wp-register.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 220 2008-10-14 11:52 wp-rss2.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 218 2008-10-14 11:52 wp-rss.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 23097 2009-12-14 06:08 wp-settings.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 3693 2009-11-26 16:59 wp-trackback.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 93445 2009-12-01 13:44 xmlrpc.php

]]> By: james http://james.revillini.com/2010/04/24/lampp-xampp-wordpress-asking-for-connection-information-to-install-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-19362 james Thu, 20 May 2010 13:05:32 +0000 http://james.revillini.com/?p=333#comment-19362 What's the output if you do <strong>ls -l</strong> in the wordpress directory? What’s the output if you do ls -l in the wordpress directory?

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