One of my blog stooped allowing me to upload photos through the Admin panel. It worked up until March and stopped working. I do not do many photos but is a pain when I do. I tried setting permission different but still can't do it. This is the error I get: Unable to create directory /home/blozzzco/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2008/07. Is its parent directory writable by the server? Does anyone know how to fix this problem? All my other Word Press blogs work including one on the same hosting account. Thanks for any help!
I have no idea, I tried setting the CMOD permission all different ways and I still can't upload them. I was hoping someone else had the same problem and knew how to fix it.
Maybe an off the wall shot, but how many sub directories do you have in /home/blozzzco/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2008/ ? Maybe you maxed it out in the linux OS? I remember I had an image hosting website back in 2002, and ran into that problem of having like 32k sub directories under "USERS", and it wouldn't let me add anymore directories. Try backing up your WP installation, and reinstalling? Turn off any new plugins you might have installed, and work back from there?
I only have one sub directoy in that folder. I prefer not to reinstall since I am more worried about losing my data. It was doing it before I updated to 2.5 and it is still doing it after the update.
Every WP user has this problem. The wp folder wp-content, responsible for this error, does not come pre-cmod-ed. All you have to do is to use a FTP program, right click on the wp-content folder and cmod it to 777. This is the solution.
I tried that before and it did not work. However, I just found a solution to the problem. I went into the wp-admin>settings>Miscellaneous and unchecked the Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders box and it now works. I am not sure why this is a problem because all my blogs have that checked but it worked so I am happy. Thanks for all the suggestions!