Upload images in WP2 problem

I have that too, but I do want to be able to use the “insert image” option.

try setting it at 0777 at *nix systems

I just want to get rid of the upload option, I use ftp for moving files and just link to them. That upload section takes up too much room for me. Why didn’t they make that reduce like the rest of the options?

i got the old-style-plugin, and it works, but i had to set the wp-content-directory to permission 777.
is it really a good idea to open all doors to everybody???

its not, try setting the uploads folder to 0777 and not the contents folder

same “problem” here.

wp tried to create a 2006 folder, but it wasnt writable.
using cuteFTP, i saw that the folder 2006 was created, but not writeably. so when i tried to do it by hand, i wasn’t allowed to change any thing, since obviously i wasn’t the author.
so i deleted 2006, created it myself, set 777, then created the subfolders 01 up to 12, set each as writeable (what a pain to do manually!!), now it works.

but that’s not really something i should have to do every year!
dang!

when the content folder does not have 777, i cannot do any administration, no change in the blog, no activating of plugins, nothing.
and i really don’t feel good having a single folder on my server which is open to everybody.

there has to be another way!

does anybody know where to get the old wordpress?

thanks!

Unable to create directory /home/unhinged/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2006/06. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

I am getting this also, am new to the whole WP thing, can’t figure out where to even start. Can anyone walk me through how to make this work (if it’s doable…seems to be a common problem?)

Thanks.

I chmod’ed wp-content to 777. I tried image upload and the “uploads” folder was created by wordpress. However, for some reason the “07” folder for July could not be created by WordPress. I checked and the “uploads” folder was created by wordpress with 777 permissions, so why can’t wordpress now created sub items?

Check the parent, in this case: /2006/

I had the same problem with WP 2.0 not being able to create a folder beyond 2006 even though everything’s been set to 777.

The only way I could get it to work was to uncheck the “organize my uploads into year and month” and fill in the exact directory “wp-content/uploads” for uploading.

It works now. Funny though, never had that problem with other hosting companies till this new one.

Partial solution:

the problem is caused by your PHP running in SAFE mode.

You need to fix this in /etc/php.ini (or wherever php.ini is on your server) or get the sysadmin to fix it.

But WAIT! it is not necessarily over yet!

In you Apache configuration files (there are often several) there may be a line:
php_admin_flag safe_mode on

Change it to OFF or comment it out.

Make sure you understand the consequences – switching to OFF for a wrong directory may lead to all kinds of unpleasentness. Good luck!

I had this problem too. My version is 2.0.4.

Finally I used FTP, deleted the uploads folder in wp-content, created a new folder with the same name and gave that folder 777 permissions.

It works now but what about the security?