SFTP Port Issue When Upgrading Wordpress or Plugins

Hi,

At setting time of VPS i changed port number due to security reason. For example my port number is 43 then how can i update my wordpress site because i am able to enter there only host name, user name and password.

After search online i tried something like below for host

sftp://192.169.XXX.XXX or sftp://192.169.XXX.XXX:43 or 192.169.XXX.XXX or 192.169.XXX.XXX:43
myusername
password

But get always error message that "ERROR:There was an error connecting to the server, Please verify the settings are correct."

When i connect through filezilla FTP with above details then its working fine but at update time at wordpress i am unable to connect with above details.

Please guide me that how can i update wordpress from admin area with SFTP connection.

Hoping to get best suggestion and ideas as soon as possible.

Thanks

 

Hi,

In order to update WordPress via SFTP (SSH) you should use the SSH/SFTP Updater Support plugin or the built-in SSH2 upgrader. If you use the second method you'll have to install the pecl SSH extension on your server.

 

Thanks for your idea. Now its working for me. I have installed already SSH/SFTP Updater Support plugin but did not select SSH2 options and that is why server was refusing my request but after see your reply i select them and now its working fine without any issues.

Thanks lots

 

I have seen a lot of mis-unformation on this topic with some people changing permissions of the wordpress folders. It is usually an ownership issue and detailed fix for this can be found here.