Comments on: Guide: Solving WordPress Update Issue – “Unable To Locate WordPress Plugin Directory”

By: WordPress, IIS and Plesk “Unable to find wp-content” Woes and Solution « Weblog Tools Collection

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:15:29 +0000

[...] that adding a few lines of code to the end of your wp-config.php can solve most issues. As from Firdouss.com guide, try this solution first. Open up your production wp-config.php, find the end of the file and add [...]

By: Simon East

Simon East — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 05:00:30 +0000

I think you’re better off using the official WordPress constants to fix this problem. See the documentation here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#WordPress_Upgrade_Constants

These two lines fixed the problem for me, but you can try some of the other settings to see if they help you:
define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘ftpsockets’);
define(‘FTP_BASE’, ‘/public/www/’);

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Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:14:40 +0000

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By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:06:00 +0000

This worked for me in addition to using 775 folder permissions.

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:38:45 +0000

Hm I'm not sure why. But it could be some limitations on some web hosting provider though.

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:38:19 +0000

You're welcome! Glad it helps!

By: nostradamuszen

nostradamuszen — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:33:57 +0000

At last!

This issue has been bugging me for weeks – thank you Ross, thank you ! !

Cheers, Mark

By: Luis

Luis — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:57:12 +0000

awesome. this finally solved this.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:57:35 +0000

You are awesome!! Thank you!

By: Silma

Silma — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:57:32 +0000

Same here, setting the whole wp-content and subdirectories to 777 doesn't help at all, still getting access denied