Unable to create directory

Then it’s not writable. Note the two missing ‘w’s where the dashes are.

Try 777.

How do you change it to 777?

With your ftp client or hosts control panel. The one you used to upload worpdress.

I’m tagging my question on her, so you’ll know I have searched!

I just upgraded to 2.5 using the automatic upgrade plugin. very smooth, but …

I now cannot upload images. I get the error Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

I have indeed changed all permissions to 777, right up to \wp which makes me a little nervous. Still I get the error.

I also deactivated Bad Behavior, after reading the Troubleshooting FAQ, and cleared my cache, but that made no difference either.

Having changed the permissions, I do not know what else to try. I would appreciate any help.

Thanks

Jeremy

Hi Jeremy, you’re not the only one. I upgraded to 2.5 and went back again, because of other strange things. All was fine in March, but since April it won’t upload anymore. Same thing you have. Changing file permissions dont work… So I’m not really helping;)

Any new insights lately?

cheers
joost

Unable to create directory /home/looze_sodap/DOMAIN-sodap.looze.net/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/04. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
Back to Image Uploading

It seemed I had too much mp3’s on my server, and it was simply shut down. If you have your permissions right and it still doesnt work, chances are, that the problem is not WordPress related. Try to find out if you can upload stuff and make directories through FTP or maybe contact your host. Uploads through PHP could be disabled by your host and then changing the permissions probably won’t do much for you.

All the best

joostp

This is nothing to do with my Host or my server. I can upload perfectly well to the folder /wp-content/uploads/ using FTP. But when I try to do it using the WP interface, nothing works.

I updated all plugins, including bad behavior, and that made no difference.

I activated the no-flash-uploader plugin, and that made no difference.

I deactivated all plugins, and that made no difference.

And of course because I uploaded images directly with FTP, the Media gallery does not see them. Is there some way to inform WP that I have uploaded images using FTP? I cannot find one.

I want this upgrade to work for me, and I have done every single thing suggested in the forums, but still I do not have this really important functionality. so when I read Matt saying how we should all upgrade now, I do wonder how such a really big issue escaped all those excellent developers and how people even less technically savvy than me are coping.

Also, what use is this error message: “Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”

The directory already exists. Has done for ages. I can upload to it with FTP and its permissions are 777

So why is WP trying to create that directory?

Jeremy

same problem…