{"id":9325020,"date":"2017-07-17T09:31:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T09:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/installation-failed-could-not-create-directory-7\/"},"modified":"2017-07-17T09:31:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T09:31:15","slug":"installation-failed-could-not-create-directory-7","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/installation-failed-could-not-create-directory-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Installation failed: Could not create directory."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to install the WordPress Importer (from Tools, Import, last item).  Clicking on Install Now yields the error message &#8216;Installation failed: Could not create directory.&#8217; after a few seconds.  I have checked that all the directories in the WP directory are owned by the web server user (www) and the permissions look OK.  The error message doesn&#8217;t say which directory could not be created or why. <\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions about what could be wrong, or how I can debug this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-9325020","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-importer","topic-tag-permissions"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/9325020","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\/9325020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9325020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}