I have a wordpress website online. In the local version I had put a logo picture which now has disappeared. Therefore I tried to upload the logo again via the standard wordpress image upload tool.
I get the following error message:
Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2014/01. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
How can I solve the problem?
UPDATE: Problem solved
Thank you to everyone for their input. Here is what I did:
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In my database in wp_options the value for “upload_path” was empty. So I entered the following as value: “wp-content/uploads”.
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In Filezilla in wp-content, I deleted the default “uploads”-folder and manually created it again and then by right-click on it changed the file attributes to 777 (instead of 755 which was not working for me).
It is due to transfer of your website site from one server to another server of cause due to a small bug in wordpress 3.8
please follow following links:-
1) if you had change your server
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-add-images-to-the-media-section-error-unable-to-create-directory-uploads
2) If you had installed newly wordpress on your server
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/26781
Thanks
Very simple solution for this is
Login to your wordpress admin Go to Setting->media You will see the path in a text field with a label “Store uploads in this folder”. It will be something like /var/www/vhosts/modeling.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/ Just remove the slash in the front and make it like var/www/vhosts/modeling.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/
Save the settings and you will be able to upload images.
connect to you site using some ftp client such as filezilla
navigate to site-folder->wp_content and right click then click file attributes or file permissions
Now there is a box which accepts numeric values for permissions
type 0755 and apply to all subfolders
Do not enter 0777 in that box that’s dangerous which will give all the permissions
Refer here for more info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
I see you are doing it on wp-content directory. You need to set same permission for “uploads” directory which is within the wp-content directory. That should solve the issue.
Also check mark the option that says “Recurse in subdirectories”
Are you using WP Smush it plugin? If yes, then try re-installing the plugin or remove it completely. It’s work for me on juristpedia.ro
None of the above solutions worked for me. The issue was resolved after having discovered that I had run out of space at my host. I deleted a bunch of files and everything returned to normal a few hours later.
I am running WordPress 3.8 on Windows Server 2012 and had a similar issue. In the
wp_optionstable the"upload_path" option_valuewas empty. Changing to"wp-content/uploads"did not work, but setting the value to"/wp-content/uploads/"(add leading and trailing slash) did.It took me longer because the solution to this post is in the question. So here what worked for me copied from the Question:
In my database in wp_options the value for “upload_path” was empty. So I entered the following as value: “wp-content/uploads”.
You can also edit this under Settings>Media in case it’s not set to default (wp-content/uploads is default).