I have just configured a brand net VPS with CentOS 6 and the latest DirectAdmin. I didn’t change a lot of things yet, only disabled some PHP functions. But now I come across one problem.

When I install WordPress, normally it creates a wp-config.php fil itself (when installing) now I have to to this manually through FTP. Then after installing I would like to install some plugins. Normally WordPress automatically download and installs them, now it is asking for FTP login details. What I think is that there is a problem that WordPress (and also other scripts) are not getting the right permissions do create and download files on the webserver.

A friend told me WordPress should work automagically when DSO (mod_php) is enabled, but I guess this is default for new DirectAdmin installations. What should I do? I thought I wouldn’t need to install suPHP or mod_ruid2 etc. I have another server that is also running default mod_php under apache and that is not showing these "mod" problems.