Unable to create directory – Is its parent directory writable by the server?

ist so easy just make sure you put the number 777 and thik both small box under it.

Unable to create directory /home/a2276467/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2009/02. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

Can someone please help me. I have tried everything mentioned in this string of replies (CHMOD 777 – which I did so reluctantly, changing the .htaccess file, removing the slash in front of my directory and such) and still to no avail.

Can someone please, please (hopefully a WP developer themselves) answer this for once and for all.

Thank you.

I cannot get any of the endless thread fixes, changes, adjustments, or advice to work either. I’ve done them all, I’ve read and reread the many threads and I still get the same message all of us get that have this issue. Is it possible, I’m not doing the one I need correctly? Yes, but I doubt it. I’ve tried ALL OF THEM repeatedly over many days.

I’ve also switch from FF, S, IE (which won’t load at all) to Camino for browsers and that didn’t help either.

My gut is that this is a Mac issue as that is what I’m using. I’m running OSX 10.4.11 with 2×3 GHZ Dual-Core Intel Xeon. Maybe it’s still a Flash 10 issue and like EVERYONE the Flash loader doesn’t load either. Everything else works on my droolinc.com WP site accept loading media.

I’m so close to abandoning WP for good.

It’s a permission error.
Godaddy doesn’t allow the upload to write. You can change the permissions in the File Manager under permissions for uploads in your wp-content directory. Web Writable and Web Visible. It uploads now and stores the file in the uploads folder under date and month, but not through the Flash uploader, just through Browser uploader.

New issue, I no longer have a site. My entire site is blank, even after changing the permissions back to inherit and web visible.

This is ridiculous.

“The active theme is broken. Reverting to the default theme.”
That was the message in my WP Admin dashboard page under Themes and why I no longer could see my site.

Now I have a site up again with the WP default theme. It’s possible the Theme’s folder permissions were changed or the wp-content where the Themes folder is on the server’s permissions changed.

Update: The Theme was no longer in the wp-content/themes folder on my Godaddy server. So I uploaded it again and now the image is gone. It’s gone from the WP Default Theme too when it is changed back. I deleted the Theme and it reverted again to the WP default theme and bang the image is back up and the site works, so maybe this is also a Theme issue? I’ll try monkeying with the Theme permissions tomorrow.

But the site is back up. The image is finally loaded in the proper place and visible.
Now to see if I can get the proper theme back up, but I’m now also having issues with the icon images in the WP dashboard window. There are none.

I hope this has been helpful. I’m getting loopy now.

I don’t know how it happened. But I do know what’s going on. All my files are now trying to upload as user nobody and group bin, when before it was my username and group users. Something in the apache broke I believe.

Changing permissions to 777 as some have suggested is a really really bad idea from a security stand point.

Will get with my provider and see if they have done something odd with apache lately.

Oh the fun. Oh the joy.

Icehawk

THIS, THIS, do THIS…
chiranjeeb figured it out about 8 posts ago.

1. Log into your WordPress Admin account.
2. Go to ‘Miscellaneous’ Settings options from the ‘Settings’ menu.
3. In the Miscellaneous Settings put

wp-content/uploads

in the “Store uploads in this folder” text box.
4. Save the Changes by hitting the “Save Changes” button and you are done.

& dont 4get to chmod the uploads dir back to 755

Actually that is not relevant to my situation. As I said, I went through all the threads and attempted all the changes. That setting was correctly set up by WP in the first place.

This seems to be a permissions and a FFox browser issue, as the upload photo appears in Safari, but not FF.

Secondarily is seems to be a host issue, as Godaddy on another thread has now said: “The free ad-supported hosting may have difficulty interacting with some applications.”

Huge waste of time, godaddy that is.