No theme or plugin is being uploaded on wordpress 5.8.2, showing error.

  • Ali

    (@alimujtaba05)


    3 years ago

    Hello, I am new to wordpress and just installed its latest version (5.8.2) on xampp in ubuntu environment. I am intended to install woocommerce on it. But when I downloaded the woocommerce zip file and tried to upload, it throws this error:

    Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2021/11. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

    I tried to get some help from different sites regarding this and found 2 kinds of suggestions

    Some said there could be some issue with the permissions of wordpress directories and suggested to set them to 755. I set them
    Some suggested to go to setting->media and in the “uploading files” section, set the store uploads in this folder to wp-content/uploads. I tried to do it but there in no option like this in setting->media section in this new version of wordpress (5.8.2).
    Also I tried to install a theme directly from wordpress themes section but got this error:

    Installation failed: Could not create directory.

    Both of these problem could be due to same reason but I couldn’t figure out more. Kindly help me to solve these issue. Thanks in advance.

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  • Vijay Hardaha

    (@vijayhardaha)

    This is a permission issue. could be solved by setting 755 to your htdocs folder recursively.

    Thread Starter Ali

    (@alimujtaba05)

    Thanks for your reply.
    should the same setting 755 be applied to all sub folders and files as well?

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