wordpress problem | Unable to create directory uploads/

Posted March 18, 2015
Apache

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

winston770420

winston770420 • March 18, 2015

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winston770420 • March 19, 2015

The problem was not in the user rights but in the wordpress settings This was solved by adjusting the path in setting ->tools -> media

Adam Robertson • March 18, 2015

do:

sudo chown  -R www-data:www-data /var/www/

and

sudo chmod -R 774 /var/www

and then add your user to www-data group:

sudo usermod -aG www-data $USER

winston770420 • March 18, 2015

changed the group to www-pub www-pub:x:1001:www-data,user1 But this doenst work

winston770420 • March 18, 2015

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: -

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Andrew SB • June 3, 2016

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