Title: Error Activating
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error Activating

 *  [Goose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ggussis/)
 * (@ggussis)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-activating-2/)
 * Tried to activate the plugin but received the following error (domain information
   substituted):
 * Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /usr/www/users/X/X.com/
   wordpress/wp-content/plugins/sandbox/sandbox-plugin.php on line 66
    The sandbox
   directory path exists but is not a directory
 * It this something we need to tweak on our set-up for permissions or something
   like that? Thank you for your work with this plug-in – this is something I think
   will be really helpful to many!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/sandbox/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sandbox/)

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 *  Plugin Author [barteled](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barteled/)
 * (@barteled)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-activating-2/#post-4780893)
 * The plugin needs to make a directory called sandbox in the base directory of 
   WordPress (i.e. where wp-config.php is). You may need to check the permissions
   of the directory that WordPress is installed in and change them temporarily to
   allow creation of the directory by the plugin. After the directory is created
   you can change the permissions of the base directory back.

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 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-activating-2/#post-4780893)
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