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Can't write Style-custome.css

Posted on December 26, 2013

I upgraded to WordPress 3.8.

Looking around I opened “Apearance --> Customize” and then hit “Close” without making any changes.

Now I get the following… (Website is down)

{“success”:“-1”,“alert”:“Cannot write style-custom.css file, you may try setting the style-custom.css file permission to 755 or 777 to solved this. ( If file does not exists, you have to create it yourself )”}

I didn’t want to make any changes.

I can’t find the “Style-custom.css” file to change ownership.

Has anyone else had this problem?



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I created the custom-style.css in the var/www/wp-content/css directory and gave it 777. <br> <br>I then rebooted the server. <br> <br>Website is still down. When I try to access; nameofsite.com or nameofsite.com/wp-admin I still get the same error as above. <br>

I created the custom-style.css in the var/www/wp-content/css directory and gave it 777. <br> <br>I then rebooted the server. <br> <br>Website is still down. When I try to access; nameofsite.com or nameofsite.com/wp-admin I still get the same error as above. <br>

I found that I have four themes listed in /var/www/wp-content/themes <br> <br>1) bluediamond-v 1_05 (This is the only one that has the “style-custom.css” file <br>2) twentyfourteen <br>3) twentythirteen <br>4) twentytwelve <br> <br>I still can’t access wp-admin or the website - I get the same alert as in my first post

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