Hosting Issue

  • OK, this might be a little long, but I want to make sure I get at what my problem is. I have a WordPress blog installed on a subdomain of my main page. My host is relatively well-regarded, but is also a little persnickety about the security settings on the hosting (the primary site is membership-only).

    Here’s the deal: my blog is installed on blog.mysite.com, but in the hosting, the files are kept in mysite.com/blog. Whenever I go to automatically update or upload files from within the dashboard, it won’t work. For example, these are the errors I get when I try to update my plugins:

    Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Unable to create file D:\Inetpub\vhosts\preprintsnow.com\httpdocs\blog/wp-content/tmp because Permission denied in D:\Inetpub\vhosts\preprintsnow.com\httpdocs\blog\wp-admin\includes\file.php on line 199

    Warning: fopen(D:\Inetpub\vhosts\preprintsnow.com\httpdocs\blog/wp-content/tmp) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in D:\Inetpub\vhosts\preprintsnow.com\httpdocs\blog\wp-admin\includes\class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php on line 120

    I am also now running a theme that makes it difficult to tell where to upload my header image through an FTP client. It has an automated image uploader in the dashboard, but again, I get a message saying the upload directory is not writeable.

    I’ve contacted my host with the suggestions given in older forum posts (set directories to 755 and files to 644), is there anything else I should be looking for to make this work right?

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  • You should try to resolve it with your host. They should be able to tell you the server file paths that would work with your installation the way it is.

    having blog.domain.com point to a server file path of /rootfolder/blog/ is pretty typical.

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