Error installing applications manually

[creaapp]

Hello this problem is presented.

1.- Install Hestiacp on a vps with ubuntu 20.4
2.- Enter the control panel, Add a New user and with that user add a Domain, carry out the basic edition, SSL, etc.
3.- Install wordpress manually and apparently everything is fine but it does not work when trying to remove or install plugins, a message appears requesting the server, username and password to access via ftp and be able to perform the action, although I enter the data I cannot do it so it works.
4.- If I install wordpress through the hestiacp application installer, wordpress works without a problem.
5, - If I try to install any other application manually such as SugarCRM, SuiteCRM, Vtiger, etc. There is the same problem that I can not make them work, I do not pass the installer.

Make the change of permissions using the following commands from the console.

DO NOT RUN THE FOLLOWING COMMANDS ON YOUR SERVER (Note from Hestia Admins)

find / home / user / web -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find / home / user / web -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
chown -R www-data: www-data / home / user / web

The only thing I did was that the files like public_html disappeared

I have done several tests always creating a new VPS with Ubuntu in Digital Ocean, Google Cloud and more VPS providers and the problem is the same.

I appreciate the support in advance.

Best regards

[eris]

@creaapp

The only thing I did was that the files like public_html disappeared

By default those folders have user:user or even user:root for a reason so it in not supported to alter them…

[Lupu]

Most likely you have installed those apps using the root user, so php-fpm which runs as a normal user (the one you have created in Hestia webui) does not have enough write permission.

If this is the case, proper ownership of the files under public_html can be restored using this command:

sudo chown user1: -R /home/user1/web/mydomain/public_html/

[creaapp]

Lupu
Thanks for the answer, that was the solution for the wordpress to work well.
Thank you very much.