By andrew167255
WordPress 3.5 changes where media files are uploaded from blogs.dir to wp-content/uploads/sites/{site_id}. I have configured Multisite to use subdomains and the only way I have been able to allow WordPress to upload files (images) is to manually create the necessary folder structure and then to give 777 permissions.
$ chmod 777 /var/www/wp-content/uploads/sites/2 $ chmod 777 /var/www/wp-content/uploads/sites/3 etc.
This seems as though PHP does not have permissions to create/write files on my droplet. I’d obviously prefer my permissions to be 755. Any thoughts?
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@a.single.drop: What’s the output of these commands? <br><ol><li>ps wwaux | grep apache</li><li>stat /path/to/wp-content</li></ol>
Try adding the user that owns /var/www/wp-content/uploads to the www-data group and chmod uploads to 775: <br> <br>usermod -a -G www-data youruser <br>chmod 775 /var/www/wp-content/uploads
you need to chown your installation to the php user too. i.e. if your user is www-data and they’re a member of www-data you’d do <br>$chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wp-content/uploads/sites/ <br>
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