Title: Problem inserting media into post
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem inserting media into post

 *  [LarryMarshall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larrymarshall/)
 * (@larrymarshall)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-inserting-media-into-post/)
 * I’m baffled. My blog is a new one and I’m a newbie. I have no problem inserting
   images into blog posts but if I try to insert a media file (and mp4), I get:
 * You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-admin/media-upload.php on this server.
 * Now I’m not trying to ‘upload’ it using the WP upload feature. The video already
   exists on my website so I’m just pointing at it. What I can’t understand is the‘
   permission’ thing as I’m working as the administrator and the file permissions
   are 755 so I’ve got read/write/execute access to that file.
 * But it gets worse. I tried to modify a user profile that wasn’t mine an I got:
 * You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-admin/user-edit.php on this server.
 * Anyone have a clue what’s going on here?
 * Cheers — Larry

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 *  Thread Starter [LarryMarshall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larrymarshall/)
 * (@larrymarshall)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-inserting-media-into-post/#post-927598)
 * Please…please…someone must have had this problem. I’m still trying to figure 
   out what’s going on here. When I look at the /blog/wp-admin…. file call that 
   I, as administrator don’t have access to, it seems to me that the path is wrong
   as “blog” is a directory branching from my website, not really the root directory.
   Where is this path stored? I can’t find anything other than Settings where the
   blog URL is [http://www.woodnbits.com/blog](http://www.woodnbits.com/blog).
 * This problem is preventing me from doing anything to change the setup of the 
   blog. Can’t even get a Feedburner plugin going as I’m told I don’t have access
   to plugins.php 🙁
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 * Cheers — Larry

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [LarryMarshall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larrymarshall/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-inserting-media-into-post/#post-927598)
 * Status: not resolved

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