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Amazon web services – WP plugin install complain can't create directory: Directory Permission is set to 775

I have a nginx installation on an AWS server with Debian 12, I have setup the server to run as nginx group and with nginx user.

However, when I tried to install plugin from the dashboard, it keeps complaining that it cannot create a directory under the wp plugin directory, which is ./wp-content/plugins.

The directory has a permission set to 775, which the owner is admin and the group is nginx. I also tried setting the owner to be nginx but still doesn’t work.

The directory has a permission set to 775, which the owner is admin and the group is nginx. I also tried setting the owner to be nginx but still doesn’t work.

I have looked at the log files but they gave me no useful information.

Anyone has a clue of how to fix this?

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    I discovered that PHP-FPM is still running www-data as the user and later I discovered I need to create a separate user for php-fpm pool for security reasons, so I did that.

    After that I simply changed the owner of the document root of the website to the newly created user and it just works like a magic.


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    My only suggestion is be dead certain about what user owns that process, and make sure that path is owned by that user, with 744 permissions, an apply a chown and chmod recursively on that path. And double check everything. That’s is the correct configuration. It will work.

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