Hi Michael,
I love this video. I have been working on a similar one for stripShow. There is one thing, completely unrelated to Webcomic, that I noticed about your video and am very excited by. I notice you’re running your webserver locally on your Mac. I do the same thing for my test site, but automatically installing plugins doesn’t work for me. It asks me for an FTP host and username, then fails. Yours, I notice, doesn’t do this. Any idea why?
Thanks! Honestly, I couldn’t tell you specifically. XD I tried MAMP first, which worked well but didn’t have the necessary PHP extension for handling ZIP archives (and I couldn’t figure out how to install it, meaning I couldn’t demo bulk-uploads), so then I tried XAMPP, which was idiotic (and I think had the issue you described; both of them might’ve, actually).
Finally I gave up and just used OS X’s built in versions of apache and php to setup a server. It, too, lacked the zip extension, but a an hour or two of searching and messing with Terminal allowed me to get it installed. As far as I can remember I haven’t had any FTP issues like that since I’ve been using the OS X’s apache server.
Actually, I figured it out. WordPress expects the owner of any file it creates in wp-content to be the same as the owner of the script that’s creating the file. So all one has to do is set the owner of all the WP .php files to _www, and you won’t get the FTP problem anymore.
doesnt work with my theme =( (sad face) and im too stupid to work out everything.
Hi Michael,
I love this video. I have been working on a similar one for stripShow. There is one thing, completely unrelated to Webcomic, that I noticed about your video and am very excited by. I notice you’re running your webserver locally on your Mac. I do the same thing for my test site, but automatically installing plugins doesn’t work for me. It asks me for an FTP host and username, then fails. Yours, I notice, doesn’t do this. Any idea why?
Thanks! Honestly, I couldn’t tell you specifically. XD I tried MAMP first, which worked well but didn’t have the necessary PHP extension for handling ZIP archives (and I couldn’t figure out how to install it, meaning I couldn’t demo bulk-uploads), so then I tried XAMPP, which was idiotic (and I think had the issue you described; both of them might’ve, actually).
Finally I gave up and just used OS X’s built in versions of apache and php to setup a server. It, too, lacked the zip extension, but a an hour or two of searching and messing with Terminal allowed me to get it installed. As far as I can remember I haven’t had any FTP issues like that since I’ve been using the OS X’s apache server.
Actually, I figured it out. WordPress expects the owner of any file it creates in wp-content to be the same as the owner of the script that’s creating the file. So all one has to do is set the owner of all the WP .php files to _www, and you won’t get the FTP problem anymore.
doesnt work with my theme =( (sad face) and im too stupid to work out everything.