just moved site, media upload broken

  • johndove523

    (@johndove523)


    11 years, 9 months ago

    I just moved my site from a /wordpress/ subdirectory to the root (http://caspca.org)

    Everything is working fine, except that my media upload is broken – error:

    “boot1.JPG” has failed to upload due to an error
    The uploaded file could not be moved to /home/caspca/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2012/06.

    I have looked at numerous related posts, all suggesting that this is a file permissions issue. My uploads folder is presently set to 755, and I have tried 666, 766, 767, 775, and even 777 will not allow me to upload media.

    Under my Settings > Media, the “store uploads” and “full url” fields are set to defaults (blank). That’s as much information as I have to offer based on what due diligence I’ve done.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks,

    John

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)
  • Thread Starter johndove523

    (@johndove523)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    note – I guess this update was considered a “bump”, as this post was deleted within 30 minutes. Apologies if this was the case. In keeping with protocol, here is my follow up from yesterday:

    I just moved my site from a /wordpress/ subdirectory to the root (http://caspca.org)

    My media upload is broken – error:
    “boot1.JPG” has failed to upload due to an error
    The uploaded file could not be moved to /home/caspca/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2012/06    .

    I am also having problems in Appearance > Editor making file writable, which I’m guessing goes to the same issue of making files writable. As an example, I can wipe out my header.php file completely via Dreamweaver on the live server, yet the header remains completely intact on the live site.

    I have looked at numerous related posts, all suggesting that this is a file permissions issue. I have tried changing permissions to my theme, wp-content, and uploads folders, everything from 666 to 777, including 766, 767, 775 ( presently set to 755), all to no avail. Plus, most of these threads are old, referring to Miscellaneous Settings, which are long gone.

    Under my Settings > Media, the “store uploads” and “full url” fields are set to defaults (blank), though I don’t get step #11 from http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#On_Your_Existing_Server :
    You must also check and edit ‘store uploads folder’ under Settings > Media or all your new uploads will continue to go into the old folder. – edit to what??

    And I saw the suggestion to change the php.ini file to safe mode – OFF, which I looked at and it was set to “off.”

    I don’t know what else to do, but I need to get this fixed. I would greatly appreciate some help.

    Thank you,

    John

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    11 years, 9 months ago

    “boot1.JPG” has failed to upload due to an error
    The uploaded file could not be moved to /home/caspca/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2012/06.

    What are the permissions on that folder?

    Don’t worry about the rest of it right now 🙂 Just check what /home/caspca/public_html/wp-content/uploads/ (and all the subfolders) are set to 🙂

    Thread Starter johndove523

    (@johndove523)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    Mika,

    Thanks for your reply. I’m a bit confused by the “/home/caspca/public_html” part, as I can’t see that part of the path in my ftp, but (starting with the first thing I *can* see, the permissions on the “/” (root) folder are 0.

    Thread Starter johndove523

    (@johndove523)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    …ending with the path “/uploads/2012/06” – all three of those are set to 755.

    Thread Starter johndove523

    (@johndove523)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    I cannot change file permissions on the “/” (root) folder… I assume the web host has to do it…is this the problem?

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)
  • The topic ‘just moved site, media upload broken’ is closed to new replies.