I am unable to upload any files to my new website on nginx. followed all three tutorials from LEMP installation to wordpress installation. WP-content/uploads/12 is not writable on your server everything is working good. Followed this Dont know Y they are using demo user name. Tried all possibilities and fed up
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This question was answered by @asb:
Like @iamkingsleyf suggested, this sounds like it might be a permissions error. The webserver needs to have the correct permissions to write a file in the folder. What’s the output of
ls -la /var/www/html/wp-content/uploads? The contents of Nginx’s error log could also help you figure out what the issue is. Check/var/log/nginx/error.log
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