Can't upload media

  • TeqToo

    (@teqtoo)


    12 years, 10 months ago

    Just finished installing WordPress on web hosting site, with some difficulty. Install now seems to be complete, but my first task of uploading a custom banner to my chosen theme has failed. I’m getting the ““Masthead.jpg” has failed to upload due to an error
    Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2013/09. Is its parent directory writable by the server?” message.

    Permissions on the hosting server for wp-content folder are set to rwx r-x r-x.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    – Check that anti-hotlinking of images isn’t enabled in your hosting account. If it is, try disabling it.
    – Check your uploads path in Dashboard, Settings, Media, Store uploads in this folder . . . normally this would be blank.
    – Try changing the permissions on the wp-content directory to 766. If you still have problems, try 767, 775 or 777. Once your uploads are working, change the permissions on wp-content back to 755 again and check that everything still works OK

    Documentation: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions

    Thread Starter TeqToo

    (@teqtoo)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks Tara. 777 worked.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    You are welcome 🙂

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