Can't upload images to website

  • I installed the latest version of WP in March. I use Prophoto 5 too as I am a photographer. My website is hosted by simplewebhosting. Recently my host upgraded their server and blocked my ip address. As a result I haven’t made any changes to my website for two weeks. Today I tried to upload media and received this error message:

    Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2016/03/12-293-page. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

    I checked the path and it is: public_html/wp-content/uploads/2016/04

    I looked around and can’t seem to find a solution that works. I have tried clearing my browser, disabling plugins etc, checking permissions (775) I have deselected the option in media settings to create a year/month folder in the hope that it would work but no change. Does anyone else have a similar experience/solution they could share please?

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  • You need to check the permission of your uploads directory.

    Change permissions on the /wp-content directory to 0775 and try it again. If it fails, change the permissions to 0777 and try again. Once it is successful, be sure to return the permissions on /wp-content to whatever they were when you started.

    Another option would be to create the 03 directory manually and make sure the permissions of it match those of the 04 directory.

    Hope this helps.

    Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2016/03/
    … and it is: public_html/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/

    eh?

    @webdesignerchristian .. maybe a typo?

    I have just discovered I have the same problem, so I’m piggybacking on this post and will try the solution suggested by Davood.

    If it works for the OP but not for me I’ll start a new topic.

    Had the same issues when trying a demo wordpress install and uploading a temp theme. Running the server on Linux (ubuntu 14.04) when looking into the directory permissions of wp-content/uploads. the directory permissions were set to root as user, not www-data

    Did the following command

    change directories so you are in the wordpress/wp-content directory and can view the files and folders
    then

    sudo chown www-data:www-data uploads/

    This resolved the issue and I was able to upload the temp theme.

    After files are uploaded.. you could always set this back to local root user

    sudo chown root:root /uploads/

    biz

    thanks,,,
    777 worked for me ??

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