Giving VersionPress write permissions via ssh on bitnami WP ami running on EC2 instance <p>Thanks in advance for your patience and support helping me with this issue. I can normally work around most problems by reading online, but when it comes to linux and ssh I cant - it's too complex. No two explanations seem the same.</p> <p>The problem is this:</p> <p>I launched an EC2 instance using the bitnami wordpress ami (i think its an ami?) and everything works great. </p> <p>Im super excited about this new wordpress project called VersionPress, link below. </p> <p>I managed to install git and get a tick in that box. Now I need to satisfy the plugin's requirements for write permission on several folders.</p> <p>I've been reading up on chmod, and checking out what permission are currently in place using ssh, but can not, for the life of me, make sense of it. </p> <p>The info on what VersonPress needs is here: <a href="http://docs.versionpress.net/en/getting-started/installation-uninstallation" rel="nofollow">http://docs.versionpress.net/en/getting-started/installation-uninstallation</a></p> <p>If we take for example the plugins own folder /versionpress, I can navigate to it and see the current permissions using ls:</p> <p>drwxr-xr-x 7 bitnami bitnami ... versionpress</p> <p>So I'm like ok, I suppose I'd better give group write permissions. But, no version of the chmod command I write will execute and even then, it's only one of the folders that I need to change. </p> <p>UPDATE: I added '~' and got chmod working on the /versionpress dir</p> <p>As a next step I tried to change rights on /wordpress dir. This was initially unsuccessful until I applied command with Sudo. </p> <p>VersionPress still reports it does not have the correct permissions however. </p> <p>Error msg: VersionPress needs write access in the site root, its nested directories and the system temp directory. Please update the permissions.</p> <p>END UPDATE</p> <p>Anyone experienced this, got VersionPres up and running on EC2 or with any advice to move me forward? </p> <p>Thanks.</p>