QNAP: WordPress and Connection Information

Newbie users like me will probably be stumped when faced with this ftp log-in screen when trying to update/upgrade/patch WordPress and/or plugins. You can attempt to guess and enter your details but there's a fair chance the whole process will fail midway through the next steps. Why? What to do?

Chris was quite helpful to get me on the right path. I have outlined the steps below for us QNAP users:

Step #1: Download WinSCP (or if you're further advanced feel free to use ssh).

Step #2: Log-in to the NAS as admin

Using username "admin".

Step #3: Change directories to wordpress

[~] # cd /share/Qweb/wordpress/

Step #4: Change the file permissions of the current folder and sub-folder contents

[/share/Qweb/wordpress] # chown -R httpdusr:administrators ./

Step #5: Exit the console

[/share/Qweb/wordpress] # exit

Step #6: Open your browser, get back to your WordPress admin console

http://(your-ip-address)/wp-login.php

Step #7: Pour yourself a nice beverage

Step #8: Enjoy!

As soon as you're done, make sure to start updating everything.

Security tip: Outdated WordPress installations and plugins are bad.

QNAP: Joomla! and Wordpress - Installation Errors

I've finally figured out the problem causing the installation failure of extensions, write permissions on the folders under /share/Qweb/Joomla/

It makes sense, if you can't write to it then you can't damn well install it. If only the installation would take care of those issues automatically, eh?

Make sure to issue chmod 777 (that's read and writer permissions) for the ff: folders:
/share/Qweb/Joomla
/share/Qweb/wordpress

In fact the JoomlaHack Tip #3 mentions having to change file and folder permissions. Earlier in 2007 and later in 2008 there are several posts from QNAPAndy that mention this needs to be done for everything under the /share/Qweb subfolder.

I have recommended about the same for WordPress in this QNAP Forum thread.