I am trying to upload a file in wordpress using the Media > Add New
— Option but when I click upload I get the following error:
Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2012/11. Is its parent
directory writable by the server?
I have WordPress 4.3.1 installed.
Thank you
EDIT:
I am on a shared server with: host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu and Apache. I changed the permissions to 755 and 777 of wp-content/uploads but I get the following error:
âmy_file.jpgâ has failed to upload due to an error Unable to create
directory wp-content/uploads/2012/11. Is its parent directory writable
by the server?
Any ideas?
You need to set folder permissions for /uploads/ and possibly for /wp-content/ , too.
Typically, both folders should be 755. You may have to temporarily raise /uploads/ to 777 and upload an image (this will also force the server to change the folder permissions and user to the correct settings), but change it back to 755 right away.
It’s easiest to set permissions with an FTP client. See Filezilla and FTP Clients « WordPress Codex.
And see Changing File Permissions « WordPress Codex for the correct WordPress permission settings:
ssh in and navigate to the
wp-content
folder and type in these 2 lines:or you can use the static and full path:
Do not change it to permissions 777 because that is simply insecure
I had the same problems last week. After trying all proposed solutions with no success, it occurred to me that we had SElinux enabled on the server. In my case, and maybe for many other people, SElinux was responsible of the error message:
My solution is based on the one proposed here: http://doc-ok.org/?tag=selinux which could be more suitable to other people’s needs.
In my case, my wordpress directory resides in my home folder on the server, to which I have ssh access. Otherwise you will have to ask your administrator.
Anyway, this is my solution.
In my case not only the folder ownership / group ownership had to be changed to apache. Also the SElinux label of wp-content directory had to be changed to either httpd_sys_rw_content_t or httpd_sys_content_t:
This did the trick for me.
More information on SElinux can be found for example at:
wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux
and
fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux
The
/wp-content/uploads
directory needs to be writeable by your webserver. Assuming that you are using Apache on Linux, and that it is running as userapache
(change to your appropriate user) one quick fix for this would be to run the following command from your web root.I faced the same issue and I found a better solution:
SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name LIKE '%upload_path%'
this should fix it.
Do not change the permissions to 755 if it’s not necessary.
If it still doesn’t work try:
this works for me, after many weeks headache
assuming you’re in
wp-content
for those who stumbled on selinux permission issue, here are the steps i made to fix them. We need to allow the following selinux boolean variables to allow installing of wordpress plugins from wordpress admin console using FTP. They are httpd_can_network_connect and ftpd_full_access. They can be activated by
setsebool ftpd_full_access on
setsebool httpd_can_network_connect on
also wp-content folder should be write permissible for the ftp user used for uploading.