WordPress 2.7 - Automatic Upgrade... [SOLVED]

[aarfing]

It just works... Pedro is the man!!!

[ROF]

To correct the problem you must enable the terminal service in the Synology system and login as root using a SSH software.
After that you write this:

chown -R nobody:nobody /volume1/web/wordpress

You can change the /volume1/web/wordpress to the specific structure you have.

Say WHAT?
I enabled the SSH BUT how do I login as root?!?!
Step by step for us "Noobs" pls. I REALLY dont get it
Pls. clarify for me - THANKS.
(Damm its difficualt to handle this problem)

[Hein]

Going to give this a try this evening. Sounds and looks like the holy grail of wordpress usage on a syno nas kit. Thanks!

[amu0373]

I'm not an expert in linux whatsoever and was wondering if changing ownership to nobody isn't a security risk?

Thanks for your thoughts!

Cheers, Alex.

[Hein]

Well i can say it does work great.

Setting the folder where you wordpress resides to nobody:nobody is no security risk. I did some digging on the internet and got confirmed what i sort of knew already. Apache runs on the user/group combination of nobody:nobody. So imo there is no security risk when setting this user/group combo.

Pitty thought that you have to set this through SSH. I think Synology could easily build this into the webservices management console to set ownership or web folders to nobody:nobody (my 2 cents)

[jahlives]

I tried the chown command and get:

chown: /volume1/web/redonegreen/wordpress: Operation not permitted
chown: /volume1/web/redonegreen/wordpress: Operation not permitted

It shows trice. Not sure what's up. Any ideas?

Try to login to the diskstation shell as root with admins password. Then the operation must be permitted
@all
Changing the ownership to nobody is no problem/risk so far. The only thing to take care of: Do not give write rights for nobody for the whole /volume1/web. Only set write permissions for the webserveruser on directories where the webserver really need to write in.

[jpg001]

Hi Pedro, thank you.

[BertBigB]

chown -R nobody:nobody /volume1/web/

You have to do this as root and not as admin
If you do it as root you can most probably use the same password as that from admin.

Hope this helps others to

[jon2pascua]

Hi Pedro, you are the man! Thanks a lot dude!

[tristanmin]

Thanks Pedro. It's work

[ArborBarber]

How do you update wordpress? It seems that the update function in wordpress is not working. That could be a security issue down the road. Any solutions to updating wordpress?
Thanks for any help.

[Timpos]

Thank you Pedro!!!

Hi all,

I had the same problem with my DS209.
The problem is with the file/folder owner. By default the web server software uses 'nobody' as the file/folder owner, when you install wordpress using a network share the system assumes resets the name of the file owner to that of the login you used to access the share preventing the web server software making any changes, that's the reason why the automatic update feature doesn't work, even if you input the correct FTP login information in wordpress.
To correct the problem you must enable the terminal service in the Synology system and login as root using a SSH software.
After that you write this:

chown -R nobody:nobody /volume1/web/wordpress

You can change the /volume1/web/wordpress to the specific structure you have.

After this you should be able to use the automatic upgrade feature of wordpress.

Hope this helps,
Pedro Tróia

[golfmikepapa]

I have same problem. My current version is 3.2.1. The WP updater says I'm up to date but the latest is 3.3.1. The manual download link does not work either. It must be that the Synology version updates must come from them, since it is a localized version?

[wattacetti]

Did you look at this thread?

http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=13208

[golfmikepapa]

Yep, and I changed ownership to nobody:nobody as directed but still no joy. Neither WP nor plugins update. I'm using NAT behind a firewall but see nothing in the log there that's stopping it. When clicking the check update button it seems like it doesn't even try to connect. No errors or ftp login dialog, etc. It just says I have the latest version. The WP download button doesn't work either.

I do have a note on the updates page that says "This localized version contains both the translation and various other localization fixes. You can skip upgrading if you want to keep your current translation."

Curious. I'll try reinstalling.

Thanks.