GrimPanda

@millertchris

It’s been a while since I did this, but what follows the EDIT: in my OP did indeed fix the problem if I recall correctly. Editing that file allowed apache to run as my username.

Hope that helps!

Fixed: Although I don’t know if this is the best route.

chown -R www-data:www-data ./

On my wordpress directory worked. All folders are 755 now, and WP uploads new files as 666.

Still testing, I got wp-content(777) and uploads/*(777) to work, but switching wp-content back to 755 brought it to a halt again. Also I noticed WP is running as www-data and not my username.. how do I change that?

On my shared hosting server everything in wp-content is 755/644 appropriately under my acct username. I would like to be able to have those same perms in my VPS.

wp-content 775 and uploads 777 are the lowest perms allowed where I can upload.

however, now I get 403 errors on all uploaded files.

Looking at my own screenshots… I realized I was editing my main wordpress and not the client one… doh (let me see if that was all)

EDIT: Ensuring I am in the right directory now, the problem continues.

I chmodded uploads/* to 777 for this test.

Using wp-content at 766, 767, 775, and 777 no joy.

relevant screens:

Changing perms:
https://grab.by/npOw

Attempts to upload after each try:
https://grab.by/npOy

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David, not too long ago (or least I didn’t notice it until very recently) Your plugin began to cause strange behavior on WordPress sites. For instance on 1 on of my posts (not the rest however) the behavior described by the OP began to appear. I use your plugin for a single PAGE on my site, yet this error appears on a single POST un-related elsewhere on the site. I don’t know why.

If you google “preg_match() Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash in media.php wordpress” you will see that is affecting pretty much anyone using your plugin.

Steps to recreate are (at least for me) impossible to determine. Again, I just use your shortcode on a single page on my site, and it affects another post somewhere else (without any shortcode or youtube, etc).

Oddly enough, I opened up media.php in Dreamweaver to debug the $url being passed (Seems like an unescaped literal being passed to the preg_match) and just SAVING my file made my errors go away, which blew my mind…. don’t ask me.

Anyways, this is the best help I can get to you at this time, since my issues went away the second I tried to narrow them down. Hope this helps a bit… sorry brother.