logickey117

This still isn’t resolved. Would love to hear from others…

@adam_maher:

I’ve noticed exactly what you’ve described after fresh WP installations on specific hosting packages over the years.

Are you on a cheap shared (reseller) hosting plan? Because that’s exactly what can happen to an account on a shared server that’s already too bogged down in terms of CPU. I know for a fact many shared hosting companies throw their clients on stuffed up servers and they can barely process scripts such as WP.

Based on the fact that you said your website itself is experiencing slow load-times, I think this is the case.

Yep… same old song and dance… when uploading a thumbnail, it just shows a blank box with the “Hello World” text (.. i.e. the title of the default 1st post in WP).. and the box is actually a link that will take you directly to the image file itself.. THEN it actually shows up just fine.

This has been a nightmare that makes about as much sense as green ketchup.

So interesting… I just changed wp-content to 777 to see what would happen and now it will allow me to upload new themes BUT require all FTP info first. The images/thumbnails part is still all screwed up and utterly useless though. There has to be a better fix than this.

Yeah I just installed a 3.4 WP about 5-6 weeks ago on a different Cpanel and it worked like a charm with the same permission settings, etc.

I’m starting to wonder if it’s related to server configuration defaults in the WebHost Manager (WHM). I’m not entirely sure how that would impact anything on the individual account level though.

@haxxxton

I manually transferred all files via FTP. I never trust the job to script installers, because typically installing WP manually is an easy 3-5 min job… “typically” anyway, I’m sure doing a great job on this one, aren’t I? ??

Thanks, haxxxton. I’ll keep this in mind.

BTW – I’ve just logged into the Cpanel associated with this new account and all folder permissions are set at 755. Is this not how it should be for a brand new WordPress installation? I can try to change ALL permissions to 777, but my understanding is that such a config would turn this entire site into a hacker’s dreamland.

EDIT: Specifically – all folders (type: unix directory) including the cgi-bin are 755, while all php files in public_html are 644.

Thoughts? Opinions?

Understood fonglh, but I’m wondering if it’s more complicated than basic “file permissions” which I’m used to correcting. That’s a simple matter of using FTP to change permissions of necessary folders, and exactly what my host support recommended I do when I described the problem as above.

As I said earlier, once I did this, the arrangement and display of the thumbnails were still completely messed up. I’m wondering if this is something I need to correct in WHM/Cpanel instead of a file-by-file permissions basis.