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I have had to move all my WP installs (18 of them) from a VPS to multiple small shared hosting accounts. Don’t ask…Search Engine reasons.

While I successfully exported/imported my database and files, it seemed to not let me upload images when writing posts… this was across multiple different servers (Godaddy, Zuver, Hostgator, JuiceStudios and more)

The exact error message is: Upload image xxx.jpg failed. Unable to create directory /uploads/2013/09. Is it’s parent Directory writeable by the server?

At first I contacted Godaddy support as they were the first culprits of this issue. They said they needed to CHMOD 777 recursively for everything and that would fix it… so they did that… at my disgust of such security issues.

I went to upload an image and realised it didn’t work… I cursed a bit… then I un-installed everything and just did an xml import install.

On to the next domain and the same image problem again. I ignored it this time as I didn’t need to create any such posts quite yet. On to the 3rd domain and the exact same problem occurred so I decided to do some digging.

Posts after posts after posts of people saying to CHMOD 777… really guys.. come on even in 2005-08 that was a bad idea.

Another made some convoluted htaccess script to address the issue AND made 777 CHMOD.

I checked multiple posts: nothing worked:
This one
this one too
and this one
www.technama.com/2009/unable-to-create-directory/ as well…

SOOOO MANY PEOPLE HAVING THE SAME ISSUE!!!! AND MOSTLY FAILING TO SOLVE IT!!!

While trying to follow technama’s advice I changed my media upload URL (WP-admin -> Settings -> Media) from /home/site/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads to wp-content/uploads

This didn’t work however so I tried different variations of it, I decided to give up on those settings and try something different so I put the path back the way it was (same config as my old server) but I couldn’t quite remember the exact path so decided to copy it from cpanel file manager.

But I wrote it incorrectly: “home/mywebsite/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads”

I forgot to put the leading slash in front of ‘home’, this however worked when I tested it again. So I quickly jumped over to another domain (not realizing I had removed the leading slash) Simply saved the settings as they were /home/site etc… this didn’t work so looked closely which was when I realized the leading slash needed to be removed.

I’m not saying everyone having this problem is due to this issue, but it may help a lot of people. So check it out.

Best of luck.

I have a wordpress multisite installation on one of my sites, and I’m trying to upload videos to one of the subdomains. However, whenever I try to upload a video I get the following message:

“WST – Intro.m4v” has failed to upload due to an error
Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.

When I try to upload that video to the main site, however, it works fine.

Can someone help me figure out what’s going on here?

Thanks!
John

“as failed to upload due to an error
The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.”

I still have a lot of space remaining. It happened to my last post but I just kept trying until it just worked. Now it gives me this message every time. My pictures are only 72 res and aren’t that huge so I don’t understand what is wrong

“example.jpg” has failed to upload due to an error
Unable to create directory \\xxx\xxx\xx\x\x\x\xxxxxxxx\xxxx\xxxxx\xxxxxxx.com\www\store/wp-content/uploads. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

How can I fix this?