kiwiwriter

apologize if i sounded like I was lecturing you on permissions etc but got confused when reading your answer ‘tried changing what to 777’. I do appreciate you trying to help ??

am a newbie at all this and yesterday hadn’t even heard of permissions or numbers like 777 or 755.

anyway, i right clicked on the uploads files and then clicked on file attributes to change it.

have read the article you provided link too, numerous times and will have to read and read it a few more

don’t understand chmod – what that means?

or PHP

all I know is am getting headache and still all I get when I try to upload images is ”Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/2008/12. Is its parent directory writable by the server?’

cheers,

permission file attributes have numbers, usually sitting on 755 which allows to you to read, write and execute. 755 allows owner to r,w,e and group and public only to read and execute. Changing to 777 which is what I read some suggest in troubleshooting allows everyone to r,w,e which isn’t good practice but suggested as a way to get images to upload.

But it didn’t work, hence the question marks, like what next to try.

Hi whooami,

this all a new learning curve for me. discovered and found permissions which are sitting on 755. Tried changing to 777 but didn’t make a difference??