Multi-site common users; media upload problem

  • Hello. I have just made a WordPress site and it works great. I also made a couple of subordinate sites.

    website.com
    website.com/site1
    website.com/site2

    The problem I have is that all the users who registered on website.com do not have accounts on the other websites. Is there any way to migrate their accounts to all the network? How about a way to make all new account registrations bind to all the sites?

    A problem I have is that when I try to upload anything either on /site1 or /site2 I get an error message which tells me that the path on the server is not writable. Any ideas?

    Thanks:)

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  • Your uploaded files go into /wp-content/blogs.dir/<blog ID>/files/… If it works fine with the home blog, the problem could be with your redirect rules (in .htaccess). If they’re wrong, you could get these symptoms because you’re not being redirected to the correct place.

    I get an error message which tells me that the path on the server is not writable.

    This means you have to fix the permissions on the blogs.dir folder.

    not the hhtaccess rules.

    was this ever resolved?

    I have the same issue, permissions are set to 777 on the blogs.dir folder and all folders above it, but no media uploads are possible (also having problems with plugin upload via wp however uploads via ftp is fine)

    message is:

    “Screen shot 2011-04-04 at 18.31.52.png” has failed to upload due to an error. Unable to create directory ../wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

    (it is writeable…)

    @iain.norman: check that the folder /2/ is writable by the server and that /2/files/ is writable. blogs.dir may be writable, but that doesn’t mean the folders under it will be.

    shouldn’t the folders ‘2’ and ‘files’ be created by the system? apache has ownership of the folders and the server is set to do this for all new sub folders….

    Theoretically, if your server is set up correctly, then Apache should create and have access to the folders. But, in my experience, it doesn’t always work that way and is an easy thing to check before going into more complex reasons why it isn’t working. The error you posted is most often caused by permissions problems.

    great, I understand the usual permission problems for standard installs (and settings required to sort tme out) but neither I or our server tech support can see anything that’s obviously wrong with the set up of the folders for this multi site install…

    shouldn’t the folders ‘2’ and ‘files’ be created by the system?

    Yes, if the ownership of the blogs.dir folder lets it.

    Create the directory for site 2 to start, see if it will save the upload.

    I had to create both the folders for each subdomain via ftp in the end and set privileges to 777 for both, then uploads worked fine. eventually ‘2’ was being created by wp, but not ‘files’

    and set privileges to 777

    which is CHMOD.

    I suggested to change the ownership, which is CHOWN.

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