Report this

What is the reason for this report?

i cant install themes in wordpress

Posted on July 20, 2013

I follow all the steps for an installation of wordpress in Centos 6

all works fine but i cant install themes because wordpress not have the permissions

i cant upload themes using the upload function of wordpress:

Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2013/07. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

this is the message and i upload the theme from ftp but i cant see the theme in my wordpress desktop

i have a shared hosting and i upload the theme all work in these shared hosting.

thanks



This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

for gain acces to the /var/www/html folder <br> <br>sudo nano /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf <br> <br>change the chroot_local_user to NO and enter the values at the end of file: <br>local_root=/var/www/html <br>file_open_mode=0755 <br>chmod_enable=YES <br> <br>And don’t forget restart the server i lost hours for this XD <br> <br>sudo service vsftpd restart <br> <br>i dont know this sentences <br> <br>file_open_mode=0755 <br>chmod_enable=YES <br> <br>is for privileges for chmod right? <br> <br>thanks

Make sure the wp-content/uploads folder and its contents are owned by the web server’s service account, which if you’re using Apache would be ‘apache’. <br> <br>To ensure this, SSH into the server to your web root, and issue this command: <br> <br>chown -R apache:apache wp-content/uploads <br> <br>This will change the owner and owner group of all files and folders in wp-content/uploads (including the uploads folder) and should let you upload files through the WP admin. <br> <br>You may be able to change permissions in your FTP client as well.

It’s clearly stated. Has the user, who started the webserver rights to write to the folder /wp-content?

The developer cloud

Scale up as you grow — whether you're running one virtual machine or ten thousand.

Get started for free

Sign up and get $200 in credit for your first 60 days with DigitalOcean.*

*This promotional offer applies to new accounts only.