Media Upload Error Message

  • Resolved Tony S.

    (@tony-s)


    16 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,
    I have upgraded to WP 28.5.
    I have been trying to upload a photo to my “Revolution Lifestyle” theme dash board. All of the permissions in my wp directory all check out. I am using just the plugins that were assigned to my blog theme. One of them is “Featured Content Gallery”. When I try to upload a photo I get this error message: “Unable to create directory /home/tony452/public_html/internetbusinessreviewblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”

    i have read the Sticky Above “Image/Media Uploader problems?” and really don’t understand it so well. So I am asking if anyone have had a simular problem & how they fixed it.
    Can anyone help me?

    Any help will be greatly appreciated as I have been struggling with this one for some time now. 🙂

    Thank You,
    Tony S.

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  • Thread Starter Tony S.

    (@tony-s)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    I want to thank you all for all the advice and help you have given me. My upload problem hs finally been resolved. It turns out that I needed 1. to create a uploads folder in my wp_content folder
    2. change the permissions on that uploads folder to “767”
    3. write the correct value in WP admin dashboard “settings”> miscillaneous> Store uploads to this folder to: “wp-content/uploads
    4. uncheck the “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders”
    That’s it, I hope this infomation will help someone else that will have this problem in the future. 😉

    Trial and error also was a lot of help

    Best Wishes,
    Tony S.

    s_ha_dum

    (@apljdi)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    That final ‘7’ in your permissions setting means that the folder is world readable, writable and executable. That is a very insecure setting. Anyone can write to the directory.

    This doesn’t solve the problem for those who need the month/year based folders or who need some other folder structure, as I do.

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