WP Asking for FTP Credentials with XAMPP Localhost

Total newbie here. I'm a pretty good user of applications, but have never written a single line of code. Installed XAMPP and WP, purchased a template from Envato and plan on working on it over the weekend. Followed instructions for both WP and XAMPP, and all seems to be fine. Running solely on local machine, MAC running Mojave. Go to install the .zip file on WP, and it asks for credentials for FTP. Not sure what I need to put …
Category: Web

FTP Connection Information after Installation in Cygwin

Under Windows 10 Pro 21H2, Cygwin 3.3.4, Wordpress 5.9.3, PHP 7.3.7, HTTPD 2.4.39, MariaDB 10.1.48, OpenSSH for Windows 8.1p1, after installing Wordpress and accessing the Dashboard, while trying to install a Plugin, a Connection Information web Dialog Box opens (?), asking to enter FTP Credentials, which finally fails under any proven credentials. The wp-config.php was entered with DB_HOST 127.0.0.1:10555. OpenSSH is configured for a Windows user Admin, successfully able to modify the Folder /var/www/html, while connecting SFTP through a FTP …
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Installing Theme from uploaded file. Not uploaded theme?

I'm totally new to WordPress, and I'm trying to upload theme from Upload Theme in themes section. While uploading theme it is asking for "FTP server access credentials", but I'm working on localhost and I haven't set any credentials for that. I'm trying to upload Bizgrowth theme which I'm downloaded from https://wordpress.org/themes/bizgrowth/ this site. How can I resolve this?
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Failed to connect to FTP Server 127.0.0.1/:21

Tried to install a wordpress plugin on my local machine: To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials, you should contact your web host. Hostname 127.0.0.1 FTP Username macusername FTP Password macusernamepassword Connection Type Connection Type FTP When I click proceed, I get this: Failed to connect to FTP Server 127.0.0.1/:21 Why doesn’t WordPress work with my FTP data?
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Images are randomly deleted from server

I've got a bizarre problem with a website I'm working on. Recently, when anyone uploads images to the site, some time later (maybe an hour, sometimes several hours) one or more images disappear from the server. They still show up in the Media Library, and all the other sizes created by Wordpress are still on the server. But whatever size is being used on the page (usually the full size image, but not always) randomly gets deleted. If I replace …
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To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web > server

Please help me, I installed WordPress locally to learn how to make sites but after my installation when I wanted to install a WordPress elementor plugin I receive this message: To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials, you should contact your web host. i don't know how to it.
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Broken theme, stylesheet is missing after uploading the right theme via FTP

I have purchased a third party theme via themeforest and have downloaded the zip file, unzipped it and uploaded the flies via Filezilla on to the server. When I refresh WordPress and head back to Appearance/Themes, I can see the below: I have double checked all the files within the theme directory in Filezilla and I can see 2 css files in there: style-rtl.css style.css Does anyone know why I am still getting that error even though both css have …
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my wordpress configuration locally vs live server

I've just got a hosting plan(A free WordPress hosting plan). My website is still in its basic form(the 21 theme from WordPress, and the hello world post). I intend to work locally on my website, then upload it using FTP(in case I didn't know, how I will just use a Migration Plugin). The hosting site provides me with all the info needed(my WordPress admin account, my MySQL database info, my FTP info..). My question is: while configuring my local setup, …
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WordPress 4.4.2 Update not working

I would like to use Auto Update feature to update wordpress. I see this question was asked 5 years ago I would prefer doing the upgrade using Automatic update instead of manual process and fix what's broken or the cause in my environment My Environment FTP is enabled I am able to install themese using the same ftp account Permissions on website directory drwxr-xr-x Sequence of steps when i hit Update now and then type ftp password and hit proceed …
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How can I view or FTP into my Wordpress site hosted on AWS?

If this is the wrong site for this, I apologize. I am not a Wordpress developer, but I have a small bit of WP experience. Does anyone know how I could view the file tree of a Wordpress site hosted on AWS? I am trying to migrate a Wordpress page for a non-profit from AWS to another hosting service. Unfortunately, AWS console is clogged with dozens (hundreds?) of non-descriptive product names, and something like viewing your hosted files is not …
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How to auto upload image from external source(computer) to webpage

I am new to wordpress and I have been looking for a way to get things done with the above subject. I have successfully found a way to upload images every 10 second from my computer to the /wpuploads folder through FTP and batch process. Also I have found a way to auto refresh the page so that the image changes every time the page is refreshed. Now the problem is that I dont want the whole page to be …
Topic: ftp Wordpress
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Deleting /wp from my website URL

I'm newby in creating websites and I have the following case... My website was working only on url Makai.pl/wp if i would enter Makai.pl there would be my hosting site. I'v tried to move all the content of wp folder in FTP out of the folder as I'v read somewhere on the forum to make my site working on my domain. It totally didnt work so i placed the content again in the wp folder in my FTP and now …
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Website Got Hacked - Fixed - Now Cannot Activate Theme

My wordpress site got hacked, I fixed the problem but had to delete the TwentyFifteen theme (the one that was hacked). The theme I was originally using was different, but the hackers hacked the TwentyFifteen theme. When I deleted the theme, I went back to the wordpress dashboard and see this: As you can see it's not recognizing any theme and I can't activate them. Also the Homepage is blank. Any ideas on how to activate a theme via FTP? …
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failed to open stream: Permission denied for WordPress plugin

I'm installing my website on a new hosting company. All WordPress directories are chmod to 775 and the owner (plus group) is my account username, the same owner as when I create new files manually. Files created by a a non WordPress related PHP script gets another owner ID, I'm guessing that's the webbserver? If I manually create a file and want the same script to write in that I also get this permission denied. Should the WordPress installation have …
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Where does wordpress store the FTP credentials?

When wordpress asks for FTP information to upgrade, you type it in and then it seems to store it for future use (for future upgrades, and maybe also for media uploads?) Where does it store these details? Is it in a file? In the database? I'm trying to figure out what information is being used to access the server. Tried grep-ing for ftp in the php files and didnt see anything. This also doesn't seem to be a setting that …
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disabling ftp on wordpress

I am building a new server to replace my old server and wish to migrate my wordpress website to it. The old system is nearly identical except for age and because of its age, I am forced to make several upgrades. Both servers sit in my basement where I access them directly through a terminal directly connected to the computer, so I do not (or should not) need to ftp anything. The new server is built on a new computer …
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Is there a way to figure out the way to access hosting if I have admin privilege?

My WordPress site recently moved from a shared hosting to AWS EC2, and with that, from usual FTP login to SSH with key. However, I cannot access it. Since he is busy and cannot support me much (we are just volunteering), I think I need to figure out as best as I can. When we just moved to a new hosting, WordPress required me to have FTP account to install plugins: Now, he has turn off something (I suppose open …
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