I am having problems uploading a file into mu wordpress site
Receiving this error: Before you can upload your import file, you will need to fix the following error: Unable to create directory uploads/2015/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server? ls -l /uploads drwxrwsrwx 12 www-data www-pub 4096 Mar 18 11:51 uploads
root@ibaai:/var/www/wp-content/uploads/2015# ls -l total 4 drwxrwsrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 18 11:56 03
my process shows that www-data runs apache /var/www/wp-content# ps aux | egrep apache www-data 1829 0.0 10.6 330832 53616 ? S 11:48 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
▽ www-data 1939 0.0 10.3 330552 51896 ? S 11:50 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
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This question was answered by @winston770420:
The problem was not in the user rights but in the wordpress settings This was solved by adjusting the path in setting ->tools -> media
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