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Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/...

Hi, I installed a clean version of WordPress and I was uploading a theme and it says:

Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2016/07. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

I read articles here with the same problem but the codes to fix this didn’t work. Probably because of the directories. How do I know were my directories are? I’m using Ubuntu 14.04 and WordPress.

Is th**ere any cpanel or something like that? Anyway… how do I give the right permissions (if that’s what it is) to my directories?

thanks

**Edit: ** I was seeing now that when I try to install from the store, it asks me for the host name, pass, FTP/SSH Username and Connection Type. I can install it through SSL, but I cannot upload since it doesn’t ask me for any credentials, I guess I have to allow the permissions?

How can I access my web through ftp since I haven’t configured it? I deployed ubuntu, install wordpress and that’s it. but what about ftp?


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I’m assuming you are using apache to host your WordPress site. You can set the permissions by running the command:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/
chmod -R 766 /var/www/

You can use SFTP to connect to the server to access your server’s file. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sftp-to-securely-transfer-files-with-a-remote-server

It works now. Thanks!

Here’s a great solution for unable to create directory uploads

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