can not upgrade wordpress in the container

Here is my docker-compose file:

web:
  image: wordpress:php7.3
  restart: always
  volumes:
   - ./web:/var/www/html
  environment:
   - WORDPRESS_DB_HOST=db
   - WORDPRESS_DB_USER=exampleuser
   - WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD=examplepass
   - WORDPRESS_DB_NAME=exampledb
  links:
   - db:db


db:
  image: mysql:5
  restart: always
  environment:
   - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=sdfwesd342sdfsdgSfk
   - MYSQL_DATABASE=exampledb
   - MYSQL_USER=exampleuser
   - MYSQL_PASSWORD=examplepass
  volumes:
   - ./db:/var/lib/mysql

I mounted the whole /var/www/html.

The file permissions are correct:

root@ca:~/sites/web# ll
total 212K
drwxr-xr-x  5 root     root     4.0K Jan 29 17:32 .
drwxr-xr-x  5 root     root     4.0K Jan 29 17:26 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  235 Jan 29 17:28 .htaccess
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  418 Sep 25  2013 index.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  20K Jan 29 17:33 license.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 7.3K Jan 29 17:33 readme.html
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 6.8K Dec 13 09:30 wp-activate.php
drwxr-xr-x  9 www-data www-data 4.0K Jan 10 02:32 wp-admin
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  364 Dec 19  2015 wp-blog-header.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 1.9K May  3  2018 wp-comments-post.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 2.8K Jan 29 17:33 wp-config-sample.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 3.2K Jan 29 17:32 wp-config.php
drwxr-xr-x  6 www-data www-data 4.0K Jan 29 17:33 wp-content
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 3.6K Aug 20  2017 wp-cron.php
drwxr-xr-x 19 www-data www-data  12K Jan 10 02:32 wp-includes
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 2.4K Nov 21  2016 wp-links-opml.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 3.3K Aug 22  2017 wp-load.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  37K Dec 13 08:28 wp-login.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 7.9K Jan 11  2017 wp-mail.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  18K Oct 23 15:04 wp-settings.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  30K Apr 30  2018 wp-signup.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 4.6K Oct 24  2017 wp-trackback.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 3.0K Sep  1  2016 xmlrpc.php

When I click the upgrade or re-install wordpress button in the Updates menu of the dashboard of the workdpress, it requires me to input a Ftp user/password to.

I checked the web root folder and wp-content permissions, they are all correct( xrw for the www-data user)

So I add the following line to wp-config.php

define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

Then the upgrade button can work now.

what's wrong here? Is there anyone have the same problem ?

Thanks in advance.

#298 (comment)

if you're getting prompted for FTP credentials, it's because of your filesystem permissions. I think you'll find that if you correct the filesystem permissions, the prompt will go away and installations will complete successfully automatically within the Web UI (since the www-data user that the PHP code runs as needs to be able to write to the directories in order for the web-based installation to succeed).

On a default start the /var/www/html is owned by www-data: drwxrwxrwx 5 www-data www-data 4096 Jan 29 17:26 . when you tell Docker to create a volume it does so as root, so for instance you could create the /web/ directory yourself and chown it so it has correct permissions

$ docker run --rm -dit --name wordpress wordpress
$ docker exec -it wordpress bash

root@bd973ce2ffa0:/var/www/html# ls -al
total 208
drwxrwxrwx  5 www-data www-data  4096 Jan 29 17:26 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root     root      4096 Jan 22 21:56 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   234 Jan 29 17:26 .htaccess
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   418 Sep 25  2013 index.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 19935 Jan  3 16:24 license.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  7415 Mar 18  2018 readme.html
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  6878 Dec 13 01:30 wp-activate.php
drwxr-xr-x  9 www-data www-data  4096 Jan  9 18:32 wp-admin
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   364 Dec 19  2015 wp-blog-header.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  1889 May  2  2018 wp-comments-post.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  2853 Dec 16  2015 wp-config-sample.php
drwxr-xr-x  4 www-data www-data  4096 Jan  9 18:32 wp-content
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  3669 Aug 20  2017 wp-cron.php
drwxr-xr-x 19 www-data www-data 12288 Jan  9 18:32 wp-includes
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  2422 Nov 21  2016 wp-links-opml.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  3306 Aug 22  2017 wp-load.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 37296 Dec 13 00:28 wp-login.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  8048 Jan 11  2017 wp-mail.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 17421 Oct 23 07:04 wp-settings.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 30091 Apr 29  2018 wp-signup.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  4620 Oct 23  2017 wp-trackback.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  3065 Aug 31  2016 xmlrpc.php

thanks, it works.

Can this be done in the image? so that it can work out of the box?

Thanks.

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