Can't upload photos

  • naomadoriguzzi

    (@naomadoriguzzi)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    Getting errors when trying to upload photos and contacted bluehost and they said it was a wordpress issue even though it is the only blog that i am having trouble with.

    Error message : “success-with-technology-final.png” has failed to upload due to an error
    Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/2011/07. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

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  • kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Try changing the permissions on that directory to 777. After you upload to it, change it back to 755.

    Thread Starter naomadoriguzzi

    (@naomadoriguzzi)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    which directory? themes? the public_html folder? I tried already and it isn’t working? is it because i upgraded?

    kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    /wp-content/uploads/2011/07 – the 07 directory.

    Also try,
    – deactivating all plugins (yes, all) to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s). Don’t forget the ones in mu-plugins. If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-32-master-list?replies=7

    bh_WP_fan

    (@bh_wp_fan)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Also check where your media files upload to via Settings > Media. Make sure there isn’t a slash before wp-content, nor after uploads It should be:

    wp-content/uploads

    And there should be no extra slashes anywhere in it, other than that.

    Cloudburn

    (@cloudburn)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    I had the same problem, Went in to the folder and looked to see that the entire path name was in the spot where it should have been wp-content/uploads,
    Change to wp-content/uploads
    bam worked. You rock bh_WP_fan! an saved my sanity.

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