{"id":5041799,"date":"2014-06-25T16:07:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/unable-to-installremove-plugins-failed-to-directory\/"},"modified":"2016-08-21T22:42:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T22:42:23","slug":"unable-to-installremove-plugins-failed-to-directory","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/unable-to-installremove-plugins-failed-to-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Unable to install\/remove plugins (failed to .. directory)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just moved my WordPress install to a new server and it is working however my plugins are not able to change the filesystem.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to uninstall a plugin, it said it could not remove the folder. So I deleted the folder from FTP. Then I tried to install that plugin.<\/p>\n<p>Now I got the error a directory could not be created.<\/p>\n<p>I tried a random other plugin and got the same error.<\/p>\n<p>I checked with Filezilla and all the folders seem to be 777. On my previous host it was 755. So the issue cant be here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-5041799","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/5041799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/5041799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5041799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}