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1. Hiuxing
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I just switched from hosts and upgraded from WordPress 2.7.1 to 2.8
   But when I try to upload a picture via the Flash uploader it gives me this error:

   Unable to create directory /home/vol3/byethost13.com/b13_3524330/morningsundesigns.com/htdocs///wp-content/uploads/2009/06. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

   The bold text is the directory from my old webhost.
   How can I change the directory? Where my uploader have to upload to?

2. arzlonga
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Unable to create directory is said to be related with that hosts safe mode. So I guess you should have it turn on.

3. Ryan S
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Are you talking about PHP safe mode???

   If yes, this is not possible. If you refer this: http://in2.php.net/features.safe-mode, php itself does not recommend to turn this on. So, no host will do that.

   I am also receiving this error on many of my blogs.

4. Hiuxing
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   What do you mean?
   Why is this related to the safe mode?

   I want to change the settings to where the Flash uploader should upload to.

5. danfcollier
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   What worked for me was going into the database via phpMyAdmin and in table "wp_options", browsing the option_name='upload_path' and deleting the old option_value. The next time I ran the upload, the file uploaded.

6. ciaoalexisb
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi all,

   I solved the problem updating the wp_options table, option_name='upload_path'. It was somehow pointing to a non existing directory.

   Thanks danfcollier!

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