Permissions Trouble

  • Resolved akudless

    (@akudless)


    19 years, 8 months ago

    I have read every thread and FAQ on this site pertaining to permissions and all of them basically say:

    1. CHMOD your wp-content to 777 or 755.
    2. Use the Filosofo plugin and upload images outside of the “write” area.

    I have tried both of these methods and I’m not satified with either. I want to upload images when I am writing my posts. I have changed the permissions to 777 and triple-checked them on “wp-content” and all subfolders. Yet I still get the “Is its parent directory writable by the server?” error message when uploading.

    I am using wordpress 2.0.4 and my site is hosted by media temple. Please somebody help me, I am tired of hearing people tell me my permissions are not set to 777. The problem must lie somewhere else.

    Thanks

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  • spencerp

    (@spencerp)

    19 years, 8 months ago

    I want to upload images when I am writing my posts.

    Then why not just use WordPress’s default image uploader? I made up these detailed instructions for someone that I had done a WordPress install for a few days back.. Might help..

    FIRST! In your blog’s Control Panel, go to:
    Options => Miscellaneous

    For uploading, make sure the path to where you want to have the uploaded images go to, is right. 99% of the people, just let that uploads path alone.

    It’s usually best at: wp-content/uploads ok? “Organize my uploads into month- and year- based folders” (box is checked), most leave that alone also ok?

    THEN, click the Update Options button. THEN, when your in under the WRITE => WRITE POST section of the blog’s control panel, for writing up a blog article, like normal.. Underneath the BOX to write your stuff in, and under the Save, Publish buttons.. there is a place to find the images you want to upload.

    Use the BROWSE button, to find the images you want to upload. (I wouldn’t worry about the TITLE and DESCRIPTION of the image).. once you found and located the image you want to use, click the UPLOAD button. It should be uploaded now.

    If it spits out an error in the blog, go into your FTP directory, here: wp-content/uploads and make those two folders CHMOD 777. The wp-content/ folder and the uploads/ folder.

    THEN, when writing up an article.. and you want to add an image there..just, go down to that same place again, and click on the BROWSE ALL button, down where you just UPLOADED the images at..

    And, there should be the image you uploaded in there.. CLICK on the image you want added to that ARTICLE.. it should show a drop down menu, click on the SEND TO EDITOR button/link thing… it should send it up into your WRITE POST EDITOR window..

    THEN, just select that image code there, and cut it, and move it to where you want the image to be at in the ARTICLE. I hope this helps.. =)

    For the permissions problem, you might wanna talk to your host maybe? I’m not sure.. maybe someone else knows about that host of your’s, I’ve never dealt with them.. well, yet anyway.. =P

    spencerp

    Hold on.. dang stuff got quirky on me.. [rolls eyes]..

    Thread Starter akudless

    (@akudless)

    19 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks but this does not solve the problem completely. The problem seems to be with organizing the uploads into month and year based folders. Although I had correctly CHMODed my perrmissions on the wp-content/uploads folder to 777, the year and month folders had not been created yet. I assume that normally these are created on the fly based on the current time. However, on Media Temples’s shared servers php is set to “Safe Mode” so the new year/month folders were could not be created. If I manually created them through ftp then I could upload the images just fine.

    Now one solution seems to be just manually creating dozens of empty month and year folders for the future and setting them to 777. However, I think this Safe Mode issue is actually causing lots of other problems on my site. For example, when I create a new user, make them an author, and then login as that new user all I see is the Dashboard and Profile tabs! No other options are available to the user despite being an author.

    So, it looks like I am going to try having Media Temple turn off “Safe Mode” which will force all php scripts to run as cgi scripts. Form what I understand this will make things run slower but I’m not sure what other options I have. Any suggestions?

    I’ve seen some other forum posts dicussing using .htaccess files to get around the Safe Mode issues but from what I understand from Media Temple’s support staff this does the same thing as turning off Safe Mode in that it forces php to run as cgi.

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