Wordpress
WordPress Install Direct Filesystem Hack
by mark on Mar.05, 2010, under Wordpress
I use
chgrp -R www-data wp-content
chmod -R g+w wp-content
To make this work with wordpress, edit wp-admin/includes/file.php in function get_filesystem_method() and comment out
if ( getmyuid() == fileowner($temp_file) )
to
#if ( getmyuid() == fileowner($temp_file) )
If the test file can be written, who cares if it is not owned by the webserver.
You will have to reapply this edit every time wordpress core is updated.