Can't create the directory

  • Hi,

    I have downloaded and installed the newest version of WP on my server, according to their tutorial. The server has all the required specs.

    The installation and configuration went very smooth, but I when I got to upload new stuff, like new themes or images to personalize the appearance I was always getting this ERROR message:

    “Unable to create directory /home/”site”/public_html/”folder”/wp-content/uploads/2010/12. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”

    If I was creating these folders myself through FTP, it was giving me the same error.

    When uploading a new theme, I had the same issue, but I transferred it myself through FTP in the right folder and it worked.

    Do you think the problem is that the platform has been installed in a subdomain? How could I make sure that the parent directory is writable by the server?

    Please let me know what do I have to modify to make it work.

    Thanks in advance!

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  • @cyberium, that was one of the first things that I did but it did not help at all. Somewhere I read about some MYSQL permissions but I am really confused about that. The server shift happened earlier and I installed WP only after the transfer was effected so I doubt that it could be a issue.

    The .htaccess file- so it is related to the main website and not the wordpress folder?

    What I am asking is where is he public_html folder? I havent been able to locate it in the wordpress part of the site.

    Ok,
    So this is what I did-
    I went in to the MYSQL settings through myPHP but I found that I had all the strings correct. And I did not want to add anything to the htacess file especially since i could not find it. So this is what I did and it worked:

    In the MAC OS, the os has a annoying habit of preventing write access to files that have been downloaded or been transferred from another machine. SO when I was unzipping the WP folder, all the folders had no write permissions! So all I had to was change the permissions, upload it, changed the wp+login php to my details, changed permissiong on the WP_content folder through Godaddy’s admin panel and made sure that the path in the WP Setting page was correct. And thankfully, it all has started working. Learned a lot through this ordeal- Apple was really giving me a pain in the bottom!

    Hope this helps people working on Mac platforms.

    Alwyn Botha

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