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Manual Install Of Base Theme

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COVVHA    1

COVVHA
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I running PageLines Professional Edition 2.3.3 on a Ubuntu development system and I trying to install the Base Theme. Unlike version 2.3.2, 2.3.3 is trying to use FTP to do the install. Since I have my development system installed behind a firewall, passive mode transfers are problematic because of the firewall's NAT'ing the IP addresses. After clicking Proceed on the FTP dialog the site hangs. (The FTP server logs do indicate a problem with the passive mode transfer.)

Is there any way to do a manual install? Will downloading the Base Theme zip file, extracting it into the themes folder and running setup.php either from the command line or from a browser window do the trick? Or am I better off falling back to 2.3.2, installing the base line theme and then re-installing 2.3.3 (or upgrading to 2.3.4?)

Thanks in advance.

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Simon    248

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Um, there is no setup routine.

We changed nothing in 2.3.x to require FTP credentials, wordpress only asks for this if it does not have read/write/delete access on the file folders to do the update.

The 'base' theme is a simple child theme thats all.

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COVVHA    1

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I'll set the permissions on all of the directories and see if that makes a difference. Thanks for the quick answer.

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COVVHA    1

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(Note to self - read "Book of Duh before posting on forum.")

The problem was with permissions. I had set ownership for the whole directory tree to my user id to allow easy editing. Of course changes made via a web page are done under the web server's user id (at least on Linux) which didn't have write persmission. Set ownership back to the web server and everything is cool. Thanks for the tip on WP using FTP only when there's a problem with write permissions.

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Simon    248

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If its your server, id change to suphp, you wont get the permissions problem then, as the server will open php using setuid, so it'll be your username, not www/apace/www-data or whatever which is insecure as all accounts with php access can read all files owned by apache ;)

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COVVHA    1

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I'll look into suphp as a more secure alternative for development. Not sure the hosting provider has it, but I'll check with them as well. Again, many thanks.

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Rob    547

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Keep us posted....

Former PageLines Moderator, Food Expert and Raconteur

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COVVHA    1

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Will do. I think you can mark this as resolved.

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The topic was marked as resolved.

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