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Wordpress can't create directory
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×sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wp-content/plugins/
note: replace the route with the right one. example: /var/www/html/wp-content/themes/uncode
I have had the same issue, and after reading the multitude of responses I adopted solutions from all the sources and what finally worked for me was to:
add
define(‘FSMETHOD’, 'direct’);
putenv('TMPDIR=’.iniget('uploadstmp_dir’)); to the wp-config.php file
then I created a wp-content/upgrade directory
then changed ownership : chown -R :www-data * from within wp-content folder.
Everything seems to work now.
I tried this fix because I am using Ubuntu 16.04 as well. I have it in /var/www.html/blog and I performed the sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} + and find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} + and then below the define {‘FSMETHOD’,direct line, I added that other line to the wp-content I created a folder called upgrade, and I set everything recursively to www-data, but WordPress said it could not create directory. After adding that other line of PHP, it said, http 500 internal server error. I really want this to work so I won’t have to do this manually every time there is a new WordPress update.
use:
ps aux | egrep ’(apache|httpd)’
to make sure that your web server user has ownership of the directories where WorldPress is installed.
Change owner to web server user if necessary.
You can finde the complete solution here:
https://www.admfactory.com/installation-failed-could-not-create-directory-in-wordpress/
good luck!
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Am using Centos7 and the folder owner is set to apache:apache
I’ve done the below too, but i still get the error.
and also added this to wp-config.php
but still i am getting an error, “Could not create directory”. I can’t update wordpress and can’t update plugins.
what am i missing here?