Title: Failed Media Upload Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Failed Media Upload * [mbugera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbugera/) * (@mbugera) * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-media-upload/) * Here’s what I’m sure is an oldie but a goodie, but I can’t seem to find this in the forums. Upon trying to upload photos (.png’s & .jpg’s, well under the 2 MB limit) it crunches them, tells me there was error then gives me the message: * “The uploaded file could not be moved to /var/www/vhosts/tier1group.com/subdomains/ wordpress/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads.” * What’s my solution? Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [fagnerdireito](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fagnerdireito/) * (@fagnerdireito) * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-media-upload/#post-2324909) * Verify the permissions in your directory, try with FTP client in the folder: “ uploads” * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-media-upload/#post-2324920) * 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. [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions) Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Failed Media Upload’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Failed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/failed/) * [media](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media/) * [upload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-media-upload/#post-2324920) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics