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Wordpress Error

I keep getting the same error, any ideas?

  1. I have generated a key without a password using ssh-keygen
  2. I set permissions on the keys to 600
  3. I have successfully logged in using ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa 1**.**.*8.128
  4. I have tried changing hostname to localhost and 127.0.0.1

The server is running CentOS 5.4.

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This is likely because your web server is not running as root and therefore doesn't have access to file's in /root/. Run ps on the host and grep for the server process name to see the username. It may well be something like nobody. If that's the case, I would suggest generating a key specifically for use by the web server and then chowning it to the user the server runs as. Hopefully this will solve your problem :)

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  • The web server is running as apache, changing the chown ing the keys to this didn't work :( Sep 19, 2010 at 11:52
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Here is the full solution, thanks to michaelmior for his help, it got me half way.

  1. Run this command to generate keys: ssh-keygen

    You'll get this output:

    Generating public/private rsa key pair.
    Enter file in which to save the key (/home/user1/.ssh/id_rsa):
    Created directory ‘/home/user1/.ssh’.
    Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): (just hit enter, no need for a password)
    Enter same passphrase again: (same thing, hit enter again)
    Your identification has been saved in /home/user1/.ssh/id_rsa.
    Your public key has been saved in /home/user1/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
    The key fingerprint is:
    xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx [email protected]
    
  2. Add the public key to your authorized_keys file

  3. Move the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub to /usr/local

  4. chown the files to the same user as your webserver (in my case apache)

  5. chmod the files to 600: chmod 600 id_rsa*

This should now work.

However, my installation kept hanging, a quick look at the httpd error_log file show me:

PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2966269 bytes) in /var/www/sites/....

Adding this code to the Wordpress wp-config.php file to temporally increase the amount of memory available:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

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