Seeing this error? "WooCommerce: To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server"

This permissions issue haunts me after every new WordPress install. There's a one-liner fix that doesn't involve 777'ing your whole server.

Here's the magic cure:

• Open wp-config.php
• Add the following at the end:

define( 'FS_METHOD', 'direct' );

• Save and close, install plugins!

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