If I Try To Upload – It Fails

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    “logo_blank.png” has failed to upload due to an error
    Unable to create directory /home/sites/xxxxxxxxx/httpd/htdocs/wp-content/uploads/2011/01. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
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    Ignore the logo – anything that WordPress tries to do is blocked with the same message – plugins, files, anything uploaded.

    Tried ‘Browser Uploader’;

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    In the case of this logo, I found it at; /htdocs/wp-content/themes/yyyyyyyyyyyy/images and uploaded the blank one and it worked fine.
    It would seem to be a WordPress misconfig…

    Add media files from your computer
    Unable to create directory /home/sites/xxxxxxxxx/httpd/htdocs/wp-content/uploads/2011/01. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
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    In the WP MySQL database, I found “upload_path”
    Field Type Function Null Value
    option_id bigint(20) unsigned BLANK [not shown] 56
    blog_id int(11) BLANK [not shown] 0
    option_name varchar(64) BLANK [not shown] upload_path
    option_value longtext BLANK [not shown] BLANK

    Now does that mean that the Upload Path is undefined in WordPress? If so, how do I fix it?

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  • well…upload path is defined in settings->media

    Is that setting correct?

    Thread Starter stupid_moron

    (@stupid_moron)

    My user name is appropriate – I trusted my host’s instructions. They say to set the permissions to 755 in their “Installing WordPress” help article. When I changed /wp-content/ to 777 it started working.

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