Thanks for steering me to the old thread (now closed) regarding this problem. Editing the php.ini file did the trick and got rid of the upload limit issue. I changed the limit from 2 M to 20 M and this took care of it. However after trying to upload and install the form Maker plug in I now get this message: “Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2015/05. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”
All my wp files and their directories are owned by the ftp server user who is also the Apache2 server user. the permissions of the wp-content which contains the plugins directory is dr-xr-xr-x
What am I doing wrong?
btw I changed the permissions to drw-xr-xr-x and still getting “Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2015/05. Is its parent directory writable by the server?” I’ll try changing group permissions and see what happens.
I changed the permissions on the “uploads” directory to “777”. This allowed the creation of the 2015/05 directory. So I guess I’m ok for the time being, or would be if I could get my ftp server to start– I’m sure that this is a separate issue. Oh well keeps me busy.
It seems I have my ftp server issue resolved, however once I successfully make my ftp connections the installer is unable to copy files from the form-maker .zip file. I googled this issue and it seems that this is not new. Apparently permission conflicts are preventing the copying of the form-maker files.I did chmod the zip file to 0777 recursively but this doesn’t seem to help. Short of unzipping the file, changing the permissions and re-zipping I can’t think of anything else to try. Has anyone run into this or similar problem? Help will be appreciated.
Dear user,
Please unzip the plugin folder and using ftp place it into wp-content/plugins folder. Then go to the backend of your site and activate it from plugin list. Thank you.
Can’t thank you enough — every thing seems to work except for the captcha (its grayed out). I’ll work on it. At least I have the form and it seems otherwise functional. Thanks again.
