Lightsail Wordpress plugin update attempt producing this... "To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed."

Question

Our Lightsail Wordpress multisite install has been working well.
I am attempting to update needed plugins and received this message: "To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed."
![needed FTP creds](/media/postImages/original/IMlbNh8Jk4Tw-pgnaiHsy8TA)

I'm using a keyfile for our SFTP, and our normal user/password produced this error: Failed to connect to FTP Server www.quietlyworking.org:21

Looking forward to your help getting these updated,
Thank you!

Answer

As you can see here, there may be a problem with access permissions.  
Make sure your Lightsail web server user has write access to the WordPress directory.  
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/to-perform-the-requested-action-wordpress-needs-to-access-your-web-server-2/

Also check if the following settings are done in "wp-config.php".  
```
define( 'FS_METHOD', 'direct' );
```

Lightsail Wordpress plugin update attempt producing this... "To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed."

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