Title: Upload issue Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Upload issue * [Netspark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netspark/) * (@netspark) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-issue-8/) * Just installed WP3.7.1 in order to start another blog * Worked fine until I wanted to upload some media. Cannot move file to directory. * The only way is to chmod it to 777 – but you can’t be serious to have users set the uploads dir to 777 in order to have them upload things to their blog?!? * Funny thing is that another instance of WordPress in another directory is chmod’ed 755 and there are no issues with file uploading at all. * I wonder what’s the matter and why the installer can’t be set that way to check whether it has problems creating directories or not. * Due to the hits on google (with no satisfying solution) this problem seems to be still present and I wonder why no one is taking care of this. * Since it has now grinded my head for 3 days I am out of ideas. Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * Thread Starter [Netspark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netspark/) * (@netspark) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-issue-8/#post-4397903) * Okay, forget about the stuff, deleted WP because I can’t get it to work properly. Am now switching back to plain old HTML and uploading my pics the classic way because THIS works! * No fuzz, no mess! * Sad to see that WP still hasn’t changed in simplicity. * Installing WP is still a nightmare! Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) The topic ‘Upload issue’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [chmod](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/chmod/) * [media](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media/) * [upload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 1 reply * 1 participant * Last reply from: [Netspark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netspark/) * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-issue-8/#post-4397903) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics