Upload new media: Unable to create directory

  • I’m getting this error:

    Unable to create directory /home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2009/07. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

    I know this is not something new but I’ve tried a few things and they still don’t work:

    • set the directory permissions to 777 for wp-content/uploads
    • set “Store uploads in this folder” to wp-content/uploads
    • left “Full URL path to files” blank
    • tried unchecking “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders”

      • it was working fine before we changed the domain name to the production domain name. what could be wrong?

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  • Thankyou.
    Only Changing permissions to uploads folder in wp-content to 777 worked. Permission of ‘wb-content’ folder remains as was default 755. I was uploading ‘All in One SEO’ plugin on my first ever new blog markupDesign.

    Upload folder is wp-content/uploads in new WordPress2.9 as default. So no need to remove / in uploading folder path under Miscellaneous Settings.

    Cheers..Happy Coding

    Prabir
    markupDesign

    Hmm, tried the misc setting, didn’t help. The leading ‘/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs’ sure doesn’t look right!

    Unable to create directory /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/farm/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

    Hi, I have the same problems and I have already tried everything suggested in this topic but nothing worked so far.
    I noticed that my error message says:

    Unable to create directory
    D:\Inetpub\webs\mydomaincom/wp-content/uploads.

    without the dot between mydomain & com…
    if this is the problem, how can I solve it?

    “it was working fine before we changed the domain name to the production domain name. what could be wrong?” I did the same thing (version 2.9.2) keeping the existing blog for the new domain but not changing the path to stored uploads. Easily fixed in Settings ( Settings->Miscellaneous) take out the old domain path “/home/olddirectory/public_html/blog/wp-content” and replace with new “/home/newdirectory/public_html/blog/wp-content”

    Thank you vilimaunula!

    Oddly enoughtit has been working for MONTHS.. and all of the sudden I wasn’t able to load images.. i changed the LONG path to wp-content/uploads in miscellaneous and it is working!

    THANKS!!

    ~gk~

    I am having the same problem. How do I set the blog directory and change the wp-content …I can’t find those options.

    Thanks!

    .

    This worked for me! It’s under settings, media. I don’t know how mine got changed, but when I put it back to the default of wp-content/uploads, it fixed the problem!

    Settings => Media?

    I don’t see the option there. All I have is image size and embed options.

    I’m running 3.0 multiuser w/ subdirectories. Should I be looking somewhere else for those settings?

    Thanks!

    @jwrobbs Try going to your settings page. In the sidebar navigation there is a link to ‘media’. Click on that and you’ll have the option to change it.

    Anybody solve this? Any pointers? Sorry to be annoying on this issue, but none of the fixes are working or appropriate. Setting permissions on any directory on the web to 777 is not a solution.

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