Unable to create directory for media uploads

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  • Just to double check, were you able to try the solution in the article titled “Method 2 – Changing Folder Permissions”?

    Connect to your account via an FTP client or file manager.

    Go to the WordPress installation directory — commonly in /public_html.

    Open the wp-content folder and right-click on the uploads folder.

    Click on File Permissions. A new dialogue box will pop up. Look for the Numeric Value field and enter 755.

    Scroll down and make sure the Recurse into subdirectories box is checked.

    Select Apply to directories only and click OK.`

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Rabeah Abbas.
    Thread Starter ClobberGirl

    (@clobbergirl)

    I thought I did it yesterday through the cPanel FTP but I just downloaded Filezilla and tried it again. Still can’t upload media.

    I’ve learned that I can’t upload my Bluchic Lynette theme to update it, either; I get the same error message. So I’ve reached out to Lithium Hosting just to see if there’s something they need to do on their end to enable my WordPress software to add files again, since I believe this problem may have started when my Web hosting was full.

    Thread Starter ClobberGirl

    (@clobbergirl)

    So, apparently my Web host had a security feature called fortification turned on. I have no idea how or why they turned it on. I just turned it off and I can upload things again.

    You can mark this closed. Thank you!

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