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[EMERGENCY]Need Urgent Wordpress Help!!

by rammonster
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Hi,

I am a total WP newbie, I just learned how to install wordpress... editing wp_config and whatnot.

Now that everything is up, i tried uploading a theme and this is the error i saw after i uploaded it.(it was in a zip folder..if thats any help)

"Unable to create directory /home/"mysusername"/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2011/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server?"

Can anyone help me out with this??

Thank you

cheers
rammonster
#urgent #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Bruce Hearder
    1. Using your FTP tool, navigate to your sites wp-content folder

    2. See if there is a folder called uploads, if not create it.

    3. Then set the permissions on the uploads folder to 777.

    This should fix the problems

    Bruce
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    • Profile picture of the author rammonster
      Originally Posted by Bruce Hearder View Post

      1. Using your FTP tool, navigate to your sites wp-content folder

      2. See if there is a folder called uploads, if not create it.

      3. Then set the permissions on the uploads folder to 777.

      This should fix the problems

      Bruce
      thanks a lot worked ...like a charm....

      cheers
      rammonster
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    '777' is a pretty insecure permissions setup - fabulous for testing and troubleshooting problems like you had, but you'll probably not want to leave it that way. You might want to tighten it up to '755'; for most server setups that is more than enough.
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    • Profile picture of the author Phatspot
      I have to agree with Steve. 777 is basically full permission, narrow it down to 755. Enough for all CMS systems outthere.
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  • Profile picture of the author rammonster
    I just uploaded the theme and plugin from filezilla and set the permissions back to 755. Thanks guys.

    Cheers,
    rammonster
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  • Profile picture of the author MoneyMonkey
    755 is recommend and hosts usually only allow you to do 755. 777 is too easily to be hacked and is a security threat.
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    • Profile picture of the author sparkman
      777 is too easily to be hacked and is a security threat.
      It's awesome in Vegas though.
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