By JiteshShah
Hi
I am trying to upload images in wordpress while writing post. Images not getting uploaded in media.
Error message is something like this:
unable to create directory uploads/2017/01. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
How to solve this issue.
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Was WordPress deployed by a one-click image or did you manually install your stack (i.e. Apache/NGINX, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP/PHP-FPM, etc)?
The error you’re receiving is due to the fact that the user you’re currently running as does not own the directories/files that it’s trying to write to. For example, if you’re running as www-data but the files and directories are owned by root, you won’t be able to write since www-data is not able to modify files owned by root (or any other user).
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