Wordpress – Tjitjing Blog https://blog.tjitjing.com/ This is my blog on technology related stuff and on occation other things too... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:16:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.16 WordPress on Windows/IIS cannot upgrade, add plugins, upload themes https://blog.tjitjing.com/index.php/2010/02/wordpress-on-windowsiis-cannot-upgrade-add-plugins-upload-themes.html https://blog.tjitjing.com/index.php/2010/02/wordpress-on-windowsiis-cannot-upgrade-add-plugins-upload-themes.html#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:16:35 +0000 http://blog.tjitjing.com/?p=232 Continue reading WordPress on Windows/IIS cannot upgrade, add plugins, upload themes]]> I have been struggling with this one ever since I moved my WordPress installation from my old Windows 2003 server to a new Windows Server 2008 machine. If I try to use “automatic upgrade” to upgrade to the latest WordPress release or upgrade or add a new plugin I get to the “Connection Information” page asking me to fill out ftp host name, user name and password. When I try to upload a new WordPress theme I get 500 Internal Server Error. I have understood that this is a permissions problem in the file system but have failed to be able to solve it.
I have been trying to give various users and groups permissions on the everything from the entire wordpress directory to the wp-content folder.

However what I did not realize until today is that (at least in my Windows installation) the group IIS_IUSRS does not have any group members but I should instead give the user IUSR permissions. Too easy… 🙂
So simply do this: give user IUSR Modify and Write permissions to your WordPress directory.

Finally!

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