Can’t Install/Upgrade Plugins Through WordPress

Also, this isn’t happening to one blog, it’s happening to all three of my blogs.

you have to make your wp-content writable. use your windows commander or whatever soft u use for your uploads on the ftp, right click on the folder called wp-content and change attributes to 777. Then upload… Change back to 644 when you are done.

chmod /wp-content to 777
try the upload
chmod back to 755
should continue working

I’m Using Core FTP and it won’t let me change the permissions on my desktop, I can change them on the web server but it doesn’t work that way.

Okay, So I tried making it 777 then 755 but I get the same result. The problem is that I can’t make it 777 then upload then change to 755. What FTP clients are you using that let’s you change the permissions on your desktop before you upload.

I also had problems during the installation of plugins and tried your solutions, but did not succeed and I think changing the chmod is not a good solutions.
I found two other solutions: https://stuff24.de/blog/wordpress-could-not-create-directory-plugin-install-failed/

I have a same problem … help !!

i have the same problem!
i tried all of the fixes provided here..nothing worked!

you don’t change permissions on the desktop – you do it on the server with ftp or cpanel file manager
you just want to chmod this folder anyway to 777
/wp-content

I use filezilla to do it
https://filezilla-project.org/download.php

I had the same problem with my new site, which for some reason I set up on a Windows server on GoDaddy instead of Linux. Two days ago I switched it from Windows to Linux (still on GoDaddy), and all those problems went away.

This guys explains the simple/easy/pretty quick switch: https://rockettscience.com/2007/07/17/wordpress-linux-windows-and-godaddy/

Here’s GoDaddy’s page on doing the switch: https://help.godaddy.com/article/1285?isc=gdbb1207

There’s one case in which this message might be a bit misleading:

If you’re running a local FTPD and didn’t set it to enable uploads.

Eg: vsftpd

By default, users are allowed to download files from FTP server. They are not allowed to upload files to FTP server. To change this setting, you should uncomment the following line:

#write_enable=YES

(and sudo restart vsftpd)