Title: Another uploading problem Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Another uploading problem * Resolved [Anne-Marie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caramellamorbide/) * (@caramellamorbide) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-uploading-problem-2/) * Or I’m being blond again or I’m the first with this problem but I did search and search and search and I couldn’t find any thing that would have helped me prove that it has nothing to do with my hair color (yet). * I’ve tried uploading an image, I’ve set all the chmods correctly, it uploads the image fine but then I get the next warning: * imagejpeg(): Invalid filename ‘/home/****/domains/www.com/public_html/***/wordpress/ wp-content/bb_background.thumbnail.jpg’ in /home/****/domains/www.com/public_html/***/ wordpress/wp-admin/admin-functions.php on line 761 Thumbnail path invalid. * I’ve tried using WP-upload and the Filosofo Old-Style Upload plugin, both gave me the same warning. Where did I go wrong…do I need to create a thumbnail file? Or something else…any help would be obliged. * TIA Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Thread Starter [Anne-Marie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caramellamorbide/) * (@caramellamorbide) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-uploading-problem-2/#post-346615) * Probably I should have gave this little problem another title, “another upload problem” is just one of the many 🙁 * But anyways anybody have a clue what I should do to make my problem go away? * [red-star](https://wordpress.org/support/users/red-star/) * (@red-star) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-uploading-problem-2/#post-346616) * Why do you upload your image in the wp-content folder? Why not in the image folder? Just a question to understand the motivation. * Thread Starter [Anne-Marie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caramellamorbide/) * (@caramellamorbide) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-uploading-problem-2/#post-346618) * ‘Cause there is where WP wants me to upload my images, I’ve changed this several times under options -> uploads, but when doing so WP gives me the: Unable to create directory /home/***/domains/***/public_html/***/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/ 2006/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server, warning. * Just to be sure…I did chmod this path aswell, then I get the first mentioned problem. * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-uploading-problem-2/#post-346620) * _ Is its **parent directory** writable by the server_ * The “parent” is wp-content. That’s the one that should be writable. * Thread Starter [Anne-Marie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caramellamorbide/) * (@caramellamorbide) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-uploading-problem-2/#post-346621) * Yup…everything is set to 777. * [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/) * (@kafkaesqui) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-uploading-problem-2/#post-346622) * Could be this bug (does your host run PHP in safe mode?): * [http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2402](http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2402) * Thread Starter [Anne-Marie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caramellamorbide/) * (@caramellamorbide) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-uploading-problem-2/#post-346624) * Kafkaesqui, that link is exactly what I keep encountering. And yes my host runs PHP safe mode. * So if I understand correctly it has to do with the PHP safe-mode? * [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/) * (@kafkaesqui) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-uploading-problem-2/#post-346637) * Yep. I won’t blame safe mode for all of society’s ills, but there’s a number of (real good) reasons why it’s being phased out of PHP. * You could try changing the code in admin-functions.php as mentioned in the “patch,” which is the addition of this line after $thumbpath is assigned: * `touch($thumbpath);` * Thread Starter [Anne-Marie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caramellamorbide/) * (@caramellamorbide) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-uploading-problem-2/#post-346657) * Thnx..am at work now but shall give it a try a soon I get back home. Will up- date if it worked or not. * Thread Starter [Anne-Marie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caramellamorbide/) * (@caramellamorbide) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-uploading-problem-2/#post-346727) * Don’t know what happened here but I tried adding: touch ($thumbpath); in the admin-functions.php and after that there was no possibility I could ever login again. Luck that it was just my testing blog, and I could undo by a clean install( saves the hassle of up-dating to 2.0.1) but somehow it looks like I’m not aloud to upload files 🙁 * Guess I can live with that. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Another uploading problem’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [admin-functions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin-functions/) * [line](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/line/) * [warning](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/warning/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 10 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Anne-Marie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caramellamorbide/) * Last activity: [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-uploading-problem-2/#post-346727) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics