I've a wordpress hosted in Rackspace cloud server. The site is working fine. To access the wordpress admin panel i have setup FTP access to the root user. I'm able to access and create files via FTP and the wordpress admin can connect to the server via FTP.
But i'm not able to install new plugins from the wordpress admin panel.I'm getting the following errors.
Downloading install package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/icon-list.0.3.zip…
Unpacking the package…
Could not create directory.
Return to Plugin Installer
First i thought it was some permission issue. But in the server i've set the permissions 777 to the wordpress project folder.But its still showing the same error.
Is there any configuration change made, to be able to install the wordpress plugins successfully.
Set the write permission for your FTP user.
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Wordpressfilepermissionsfrom here Changing_File_Permissions