Wordpress asks for FTP credentials, even though owner of the whole /var/www is www-data

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Published on 2012-12-03T05:59:11Z Indexed on 2012/12/07 23:43 UTC
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I'm trying to get Wordpress to run on my local Ubuntu 12.10 installation.

When I try to install themes/plugins, it asks me for FTP credentials.

I've been trying to get this to work for 2 days now. Everywhere on the web it says you should change the owner:group of your Wordpress directory to whateverowner:group runs your apache server - in my case www-data:www-data. I've done this, and even tryed setting permissions to the whole /var/www directory to 777, restarting apache and the whole system. But wordpress is still asking me for the FTP credentials. What else could this be?

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