Title: Access Permissions WordPress Last modified: May 10, 2018 --- # Access Permissions WordPress * Resolved [codeforweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeforweb/) * (@codeforweb) * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-permissions-wordpress/) * I am trying to upload an image to set a background image for my theme, but I get this error * “Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2018/05. Is its parent directory writable by the server?” * I tried to change the access permissions with the help of these blogs, 1. [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/setting-permissions-for-wordpress](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/setting-permissions-for-wordpress) 2. [https://gist.github.com/Adirael/3383404](https://gist.github.com/Adirael/3383404) * but this hasn’t helped me. I am stuck at this point. Can anyone help me through this? * I’m not sure what permissions I have changed and now I also get the 500 error page. I am not able to access my web page. - This topic was modified 8 years ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/). Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-permissions-wordpress/#post-10266960) * How are you hosting your site? * What did you change? * Thread Starter [codeforweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeforweb/) * (@codeforweb) * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-permissions-wordpress/#post-10267348) * Hi Steve, * I hosting my site on a Red Hat Linux on which I have set up a LAMP stack server. I read in a blog that changing access permission would fix the file upload error and followed the steps provided in links 1 and 2(mentioned in my question). * I feel the 500 error that I am getting now, is due to the permissions I have set up. I have taken screenshots to show. But can I upload images in this forum or is there another way to show them? * Thread Starter [codeforweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeforweb/) * (@codeforweb) * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-permissions-wordpress/#post-10267377) * Here is the link for the screenshot of my access permissions that I have set, * [Link1](https://expirebox.com/download/5c4fa0af1f30a124625c489997a953c2.html) * [Link2](https://expirebox.com/download/14817bcb64e0a184f01ca44e8454eea8.html) * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-permissions-wordpress/#post-10267389) * What is the user under which PHP is running? The file tree in which you’ve installed WordPress must be owned by that user. * `ps -ef |grep php` if you’re using php-fpm. Otherwise, the owner should probably be ‘apache’. Also, if you have SELinux activated, you need to ensure that the SELinux permissions are correct, too. * Permissions should be 755/644. * Thread Starter [codeforweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeforweb/) * (@codeforweb) * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-permissions-wordpress/#post-10267540) * When I run this command ps -ef |grep php, its says PHP is running under root user. Also I checked(cat /etc/sysconfig/selinux) SE Linux is in enforcing state, but how do I change them to 755/644?? * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-permissions-wordpress/#post-10267582) * SELinux and file permissions are not related. * This isn’t the place for Linux sysadmin training, but I do recommend that you use php-fpm rather than a straight LAMP stack. * [https://wp-root.org/server/install-php-fpm-tcp-unix-sockets-centos/](https://wp-root.org/server/install-php-fpm-tcp-unix-sockets-centos/) * Thread Starter [codeforweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeforweb/) * (@codeforweb) * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-permissions-wordpress/#post-10267974) * I executed this command find . type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; and the 500 error page is not being displayed now. I am able to view my web page. * But I am still unable to upload a background image. (same error appears “Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2018/05. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”) * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-permissions-wordpress/#post-10268094) * what is the ownership and permissions of the parent directory? * Thread Starter [codeforweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeforweb/) * (@codeforweb) * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-permissions-wordpress/#post-10268284) * The directory in which I have my WordPress theme is rr. My permissions are * /var/www – rwxr-xr-x (owner-root) /var/www/html – rwxr-xr-x (owner-root) /var/ www/html/rr – rwxr-xr-x (owner-nobody) /var/www/html/rr/wp-content – rwxr-xr- x (owner-nobody) * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-permissions-wordpress/#post-10268354) * make the it all owner:owner where owner is the same user under which PHP is running. * Thread Starter [codeforweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeforweb/) * (@codeforweb) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-permissions-wordpress/#post-10305242) * [@sterndata](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * Thanks for the help Steve. I am able to upload the images to my WordPress without any issues! :)) Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘Access Permissions WordPress’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [500 error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/500-error/) * [upload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 11 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [codeforweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeforweb/) * Last activity: [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-permissions-wordpress/#post-10305242) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics