Wordpress Plugin Installation - Failed to connect to FTP Server - Safest Solution?

Question

I succesfully set up a VPS LEMP-stack with Wordpress. When I am trying to install plugins from the WP backend, I am prompted with the following message:

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Answer 1

Remember to set files and directories permission in this way:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
find /var/www/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /var/www/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;