Hello, I am getting a problem installing my wordpress blog. Every time I tried to install a theme using the upload function I get an error message along the lines of "the folder is not accessible please check parent permissions" , I cannot get the exact error message up again as now when I try it asks for my ftp details which I insert and it gives me this error: "Failed to connect to FTP Server localhost:21" I have read through a couple of support forums to see people who was having the same issues and tried a couple of methods such as checking there was no '/' before the uploads path name and make sure the parent directories permissions was set to 755 (I even tried setting them to 777) but nothing worked. The wordpress install was a fresh install with the latest version of wordpress which was downloaded directly of their official site. So if you could help with this matter I would be very grateful.
chmod the wp-content folder to 777 and it should be solved. I think it is a new wordpress installed. Just chmod wp-content folder and uploads folder (if created) to 777 and it should be solved.