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wordpress problem | Unable to create directory uploads/
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
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www-data 1939 0.0 10.3 330552 51896 ? S 11:50 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
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I am working with ubuntu 14
this is the output for stat
root@ibaai:~# sudo stat /var/www/
File: ‘/var/www/’
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: fd01h/64769d Inode: 394538 Links: 5
Access: (2775/drwxrwsr-x) Uid: ( 33/www-data) Gid: ( 1001/ www-pub)
Access: 2015-03-18 14:12:18.182119391 -0400
Modify: 2015-03-17 14:49:51.014119391 -0400
Change: 2015-03-18 14:12:10.458119391 -0400
Birth: -
root@ibaai:~# sudo stat /var/www/wp-content
File: ‘/var/www/wp-content’
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: fd01h/64769d Inode: 398904 Links: 10
Access: (2775/drwxrwsr-x) Uid: ( 33/www-data) Gid: ( 1001/ www-pub)
Access: 2015-03-18 14:12:18.186119391 -0400
Modify: 2015-03-18 14:07:49.846119391 -0400
Change: 2015-03-18 14:12:10.458119391 -0400
Birth: -
root@ibaai:~# sudo stat /var/www/wp-content/uploads
File: ‘/var/www/wp-content/uploads’
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: fd01h/64769d Inode: 393576 Links: 11
Access: (2775/drwxrwsr-x) Uid: ( 33/www-data) Gid: ( 1001/ www-pub)
Access: 2015-03-18 14:14:18.854119391 -0400
Modify: 2015-03-18 14:14:18.370119391 -0400
Change: 2015-03-18 14:14:18.370119391 -0400
Birth: -
changed the group to www-pub
www-pub:x:1001:www-data,user1
But this doenst work
do:
and
and then add your user to www-data group:
The problem was not in the user rights but in the wordpress settings
This was solved by adjusting the path in setting ->tools -> media