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problems uploading media (3 posts)

  1. croeth
    Member
    Posted 2 years 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
    Volunteer
    Posted 2 years ago #

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

  3. cdub1885
    Member
    Posted 2 years 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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