Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 82.206.159.27]
on April 11, 2008 10:29 AM
In response to Anonymous [ip: 64.223.107.223]:
"There are literally hundreds of thousands of possible server configurations out there. Do you expect them to cover all? If FTP is disabled then how do you expect WP to give you more info? You can't enter a room of there's no door. And yes, you need to do the research. You own a website...that makes you a webmaster...it's your job."
A little explanation for when the "auto update plugins" feature fails would be simple. It wouldn't even require any code... Printing something like, "Unable to automatically retrieve plugin updates from Wordpress.org. If you provide login details for your web server I can try to fetch the plugins via FTP."
Maybe I'll file a bug report. Hopefully the Wordpress developers are a little more understanding than you.
Also, I haven't used FTP on my server in years. You're correct, I OWN a server, and therefore I have the luxury of using SSH as my "door." From there I can use svn, wget, curl, links, ftp, etc; no need to download them to my personal computer and FTP them to my server.
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Re: FTP and the updater
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 82.206.159.27] on April 11, 2008 10:29 AM"There are literally hundreds of thousands of possible server configurations out there. Do you expect them to cover all? If FTP is disabled then how do you expect WP to give you more info? You can't enter a room of there's no door. And yes, you need to do the research. You own a website...that makes you a webmaster...it's your job."
A little explanation for when the "auto update plugins" feature fails would be simple. It wouldn't even require any code... Printing something like, "Unable to automatically retrieve plugin updates from Wordpress.org. If you provide login details for your web server I can try to fetch the plugins via FTP."
Maybe I'll file a bug report. Hopefully the Wordpress developers are a little more understanding than you.
Also, I haven't used FTP on my server in years. You're correct, I OWN a server, and therefore I have the luxury of using SSH as my "door." From there I can use svn, wget, curl, links, ftp, etc; no need to download them to my personal computer and FTP them to my server.
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