Upon Directory location failure with FTP, Ask for the path to wordpress

[dd32]

Currently, If after connecting to the FTP server, WordPress cannot locate a Directory it needs, It'll simply error out, Requiring the user to define a few constants.

Instead, If the directories cannot be located, a message should be shown requesting the path of the directory. This should be shown along side the login credentials for future access attempts.

Fool-proofing will be required to prevent users entering the incorrect path, For example, Writing a file to the directory needed, and checking from within PHP that the file exists with the correct content.

[dd32]

Moving to future release pending patch & 2nd-opinion

still not 100% sure on fool proofing it..

[chrisale]

I would just like to bump this up the list. I'm configuring a new web server for a large group of folks and the only way this feature of wordpress will work for us is if we can have the users specify where wordpress lives.

[dd32]

Lacking of traction, and we would be better off enhancing WordPress to handle all cases (as we have improved in the last 2 years).

In the event that someone writes a patch which has a good UX flow to it, please re-open for a re-consideration, however, due to the direction that upgrades are likely to head in the future, I can't see it being a consistent experience.

There are ​constants available at present for those affected by any detection bugs.