{"id":5073251,"date":"2014-07-06T19:39:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/could-not-create-directory-15\/"},"modified":"2016-08-21T23:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T23:01:27","slug":"could-not-create-directory-15","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/could-not-create-directory-15\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Could not create directory&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I am trying to install plugins on my wordpress site, and when I tried my first one wordpress said it needed FTP details. Specifically, the hostname, ftp username, and the ftp password. On my server, the whole wordpress site is under a directory, and I have made a new ftp user, and given it all permissions over that whole directory. Any idea why when I try to download a plugin in says this? &#8211; &#8220;Unpacking the package\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Could not create directory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-5073251","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-install-plugin"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/5073251","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\/5073251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}