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1. TheEFAF
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Alright, I've seen a lot of posts about these already but they all talk about file permissions. That is probably my problem but I can't get it to work.

   I can't upload any media to the library, it ends up with:
   “tr-5543-26B-2.jpg” has failed to upload due to an error
   The uploaded file could not be moved to D:\Hosting\3016094\html\goneforarunblog/wp-content/uploads.

   Maybe it's just me not understanding things, but I find it weird that it starts with D: and switches from backslashes halfway through, when it's uploading to a remote online fileserver.

   Additionally, I can access everything fine in the appearance editor without any problems for functions.php, index.php, etc, but no changes are ever saved, and no error messages ever appear. I'll bring a page up, edit, hit "update file" and everything is undone. So I've just been pulling the files off the server, editing, saving, and reuploading.

   Basically, it seemed like a permissions problem, so I checked the documentation on it, and checked my server permissions. Everything's checked for read/write/execute but say I put in value 777 anyway, the server comes back with:

   Status: Set permissions of '/goneforarunblog' to '777'
   Command: CWD /
   Response: 250 CWD command successful.
   Command: SITE CHMOD 777 goneforarunblog
   Response: 500 'SITE CHMOD 777 goneforarunblog': command not understood

   So really, I have no idea what to do.
   If I have to reinstall wordpress, am I allowed to pull out all the theme editing I've done to put back in later? It's a lot of work I don't want to trash and redo! At least there are only dummy posts to fill the blog in.

   If necessary, blog can be found at:
   http://chalktalksports.net/goneforarunblog/

2. TheEFAF
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   After a bunch of searching around, I finally got it.
   It was so insanely simple, I feel rather dumb. I've always worked on Linux/Apache servers. It had never occurred to me that I was working on Windows/IIS (I had not set up the server, you see, just came in afterwards and assumed). For Windows, you cannot use *nix commands like CHMOD. Instead, I had to go to my hosting provider and use their domain manager to change the file permissions to read/write for applications. For some reason I could not even access permission rights through explorer or any other way, just through the host's back end.

   I hope this helps somebody. If you are having this issue and someone says, "but Windows servers shouldn't need to change permissions! That must not be the problem!" then check your hosting service.

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