(1) Can’t Upload Media; (2) Favicon Problem

  • Resolved Mickey Bo

    (@mickey-bo)


    2 years, 5 months ago

    1) I am unable to upload images to my Media Library. This is the error message I get:

    “bo-favicon.png” has failed to upload.
    Unable to create directory uploads/2022/06. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

    I tried to established a 2022/06 directory containing the desired image via FTP with no success. Nor did I have success sticking the image file into the September (09) monthly folder from 2020 which displays the last Media images I successfully uploaded.

    I cannot say when this problem began. The reason I tried now is because I wanted to refresh my favicon image, which apparently is not working. Last year, I upgraded my 1&1 IONOS account to WP Pro One, which requires Plesk.

    2) The favicon issue is another problem. My service provider’s monthly health check for my website says, “There is no favicon for the website yet.” Yet my WP Site Identity clearly shows a favicon, which used to work. The favicon which appears on my website in browsers is not mine.

    I applied the Health Check plugin to my WP site, but it showed no problems that I could detect.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Mickey Bo. Reason: added detail about Health Check plugin

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  • Hello there Mickey!

    Your /wp-content/uploads/ directory needs to have 755 permissions. You can do that using your FTP client or via shell executing this command from within the uploads folder:

    chmod -R 755 *

    Here’s the official documentation on changing your file permissions.

    After you solve that issue you should be able to change your favicon with no problem.

    Best regards,
    Farid.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by faridjc. Reason: forgot to mention about favicon

    2) The favicon issue is another problem. My service provider’s monthly health check for my website says, “There is no favicon for the website yet.” Yet my WP Site Identity clearly shows a favicon, which used to work. The favicon which appears on my website in browsers is not mine.

    Your CURRENT homepage has a favion.ico link, but it’s pointed to an FTP URI. That’s not going to work, unfortunately.

    <link rel="icon" href="ftp://[email protected]/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

    And it seems this favicon link code is something manually inserted into the theme file, and not something injected by WordPress.

    Also, it looks like your bo-favicon.png PNG favicon file was actually uploaded: check the path on your domain: /wp-content/uploads/2022/06/bo-favicon.png

    But I don’t see any other link icon code in your site’s HTML source code, so I’m not sure where the WordPress “Site Identity” icon you’re seeing is coming from.

    Thread Starter Mickey Bo

    (@mickey-bo)

    George,

    I’ve solved my favicon problem. It was simple, really. All I did was ignore WordPress and put the standard link in my <head> just after <title>, as recommended by W3 Schools. The link I used was <link rel=”icon” type=”image/png” href=”/wp-content/images/bo-favicon.png”>

    I’m not worried about being unable to upload files now to my WP Media page since I can do it via FTP.

    Thanks to you and Farid, who also replied.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Mickey Bo. Reason: Added link to my favicon
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