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1. croeth
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   hi,

   i'm having trouble uploading images (as well as all other media). basically, this error message pops-up if i attempt to upload anything:

   Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

   help would be greatly appreciated.

   thanks, chris

2. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 8 months ago #

   The folders, wp-content, and wp-content/uploads, likely need to have permisssion 777 set. See Changing File Permissions.

3. cdub1885
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   I had to change the permissions to chmod 777 to the root directroy:

   /home/cwc/Sites/

   Sites is the root directory on my test server.When I do this on my live server it will be /home/dogblog/
   I'll chmod 777 -R to /home/dogblog/

   This is all done with linux terminal commands using ssh to my live server.

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