Error Updates ore Uploading

Hi,

In general it’s a file permission issue, if you have ftp rights, please make wp-content folder as 755 (chmod), for example in Filezilla free ftp client, right click the folder, then change file permissions like that.

You should be able to upload and change things if it worked.

Thanks for the answer, i have not worked with Filezilla. I can into my filemanager (webreus) and see the wp-content folder. But what do you mean by make as 755 (chmod)? (sorry i am a rookie in this)

Well, Filezilla is just a program to setup on your local computer to see what you see in webreus, folders and files.

So, not sure you can do that in your web panel, but try to change folder permissions. This should be while ticking the wp-content folder, and try to see if you have options to edit the folder (so, about read/write rights to folder and subfolders).

If you can’t in browser, check your ftp credentials (serious host, i’m sure it gave you a login and password for ftp), install Filezilla – free & open client -, and then you’ll be able to right click the wp-content folder to change permissions and check numbers 755 for it and subfolders.

Hope it helps,

If you are logged in FTP in Filezilla, you should see something like that:

https://imgur.com/vWDg5KV

755 is a set of values that defines read/write permissions on most linux webservers.

Yes i have now Filezilla, but the values is already 755. Just like your image

Damn, does it apply to folder and subfolders? It’s very important that subfolders are also done in the change.

I have (almost) the same problem. But where updating plugins does work, I can’t upload images either.
I’ve tried resetting file permissions, even to 777, I still got the same message as Tim was getting:

Kan map uploads/2015/11 niet aanmaken. Is de bovenliggende map beschrijfbaar door de server?

any help would be appreciated!

Hi, and thanks for the feedback,

Your user on linux (debian/ubuntu) still doesn’t have enough rights to overwrite what files that depend on wordpress folder and subfolders. So for me, it’s still a permission issue.

If you use a Debian Linux, like Ubuntu you install wordpress with a specific user with “sudo” (superadmin) rights to allow for full control. One click & automatic updates will need that and a few configuration lines to allow external writing inside your webserver folders.

Basically, Linux is way more secured than any MS system. On a webserver context, wordpress (and wp-content folder) is by default in read-only mode.

If you have admin and console rights as Robert; it would look like this:

sudo chown -R Robert:www-wordpress *

while www-wordpress is your main folder.

I recommend clean web browser cache. Good lucky

Thanks for the input.

I’m running my site on a third-party server so I don’t know which server-software it’s running. But even when I create the specific map manually thru the hosts interface or via FTP, I still get the same message.