Error When Importing Posts to New Blog

  • Resolved dmmagic

    (@dmmagic)


    13 years, 8 months ago

    I have WordPress 3.0.1 installed with Multisite activated. Everything works fine: I can see both sites and make new posts to both sites. I’ve even succesfully imported posts to the main site (www.ajourneyofsorts.com). When I try to import posts to the second site (www.ajourneyofsorts.com/pointsoflight), I get the following error:

    Before you can upload your import file, you will need to fix the following error:

Unable to create directory /home1/ajourne2/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/2010/08.
Is its parent directory writable by the server?

    I checked the parent folder (wp-content) and the permissions are set to 777 (read/write all). blogs.dir is also set to 777.

    Anyone have any ideas?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 8 months ago

    wp-content doesn’t need to be 777, but the 2 folder does. Did you check that?

    Thread Starter dmmagic

    (@dmmagic)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Oh, crap — never mind. I didn’t make blogs.dir a DIRECTORY! Total newb mistake.

    jessephillips

    (@jessephillips)

    13 years ago

    I’m having the same problem, but I do have blogs.dir as a directory, and it is 775. Also wp-content is 775. & blogs.dir/2 is 775.

    I’ve had several permissions related problems today, which my manager has had to solve as they’ve come-up by changing permissions for certain directories.

    So this is clearly a permissions issue, but the relevant directories seem to have correct permissions.
    …
    …
    Oh wait. It does seem to be permissions. I just noticed that the owner & group of the 2 directory is “apache apache” – this must be some server settings thing? talking to my admin

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years ago

    I just noticed that the owner & group of the 2 directory is “apache apache” – this must be some server settings thing?

    Yes, CHOWN. 🙂

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years ago

    The kick is we can’t tell you what the owner SHOULD be. Some servers need them to be nobody:nobody, others would say it should be ipstenu:ipstenu

    If there’s nothing in blogs.dir/2, delete it via FTP and make a new one that way. It SHOULD kick the pants. If not, kick your admin and ask them how they setup PHP.

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