Why can't WordPress create directories when uploading themes?

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Published on 2012-09-20T03:35:54Z Indexed on 2012/09/20 3:37 UTC
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I can't workout how to solve this problem so wordpress would let me upload themes.

I have a fresh copy of Fedora 17 installed on my dev machine.

I then installed mysql using: yum install mysql mysql-server. Next I installed WordPress which also installs apache and php: yum install wordpress

I can go to http://localhost/wordpress and see WordPress working. But when I try tried to install my theme it asked for ftp credentials. I then updated the wp-config.php file and set the FS_METHOD constant to direct. Now it doesn't ask for ftp credentials but it gives me this error:

Could not create directory. /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/themes/my-theme-name/

httpd service is running under 'apache' user and 'apache' group. The /usr/share/wordpress/ directory is recursively own by 'apache' user and 'apache' group too. I've even set the permissions to 777 (also recursively) and even then I keep getting the same error as above.

How can I solve this problem?

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