[Plugin: WordPress Amazon S3 Plugin] Directory not writable error

You can edit this line and change to a folder which is outside public_html and give full 777 access to the folder

$this->s3CacheFolder = ABSPATH . ‘wp-content’ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . ‘s3temp’ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

To (It can be anything as per your file structure)

$this->s3CacheFolder = ‘/home/temp/s3temp’ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

Thanks. Will try out and let you know ??

This worked for me. I’ve also had success by creating the directory at wp-content/uploads/s3temp with permissions set to the Apache user and the following code changes:

In S3.PHP:

[FIND]

$this->s3CacheFolder = ABSPATH . get_option ( 'upload_path', 'wp-content/uploads' ) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 's3temp' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

[REPLACE WITH]

$this->s3CacheFolder = ABSPATH . 'wp-content/uploads' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 's3temp' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

imthiaz, I believe you should be using the wp_upload_dir() function to determine this. The basedir and baseurl keys from the resulting array should give you the values that you are attempting to calculate.

$uploads = wp_upload_dir();
$this->s3CacheFolder = $uploads['basedir'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 's3temp' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
$this->mediaUrl = $uploads['baseurl'] . '/';
$this->mediaPath = $uploads['basedir'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;