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I am getting error accessing my admin panel. The error is due to plugin. I fixed the issue by renaming the plugin folder from cpanel and changed it back. Since then,i couldn't download any plugins and get the error

Installation failed: Could not create directory.

The Hungry Dictator
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You need to set permission on plugin folder/directory, now the user does not have permission to create folder/directory in plugin folder/directory.

You need to set permission on wp-content and all inside folder/directory to 755.

You can set permission via terminal

sudo chmod -R 755 wp-content

wp-content should me you folder path for Linux server path should be /var/www/html/project_folder/wp-content

OR

you can set permission via FTP. Right click on wp-content folder click on permission menu and set 755 permission to the folder.

Vishal Gupta
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    This is very bad advice. You are very likely to have a hacker come upload nasty scripts to your server, before owning it all. It happened to me, and believe me, allowing anybody to write to your `wp-content` is no solution! Rather follow this advice: https://wordpress.org/support/article/changing-file-permissions/ – Adrien Luxey Mar 30 '20 at 16:17
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    777 permission is very dangerous and it means any hacker can hack your website. – Adi Oct 19 '20 at 07:56
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The permissions or ownership on wp-content/plugins is incorrect. That directory should have a 775 permission set. If its already that then reapply 755 and checked “apply recursively to all directories and files.

Sudhir Tiwari
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If you use a docker container or docker-compose, you also need to give permission to the database volume.

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