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  1. niponbharali
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    I am very new to wordpress.When I wanted to upload new picture,videos then I get the following error:

    Unable to create directory /home/nipon/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

    my sever is running on linux .Please help me where I have to change the permissions.

  2. SteveAtty
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    go into the wp-content directory and make sure that the blogs.dir is writeable by your apache user.

  3. niponbharali
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    hello SteveAtty,
    I have checked it .It has permission 755.it is writable by user.will i have to change it

  4. SteveAtty
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    Is the owner of the directory the apache user? if not then is the group of the directory the group the apache user is in? If so then chmod 775.

    Failing that chmod 777

  5. niponbharali
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    thanks for your help.
    But am getting an 550 error.and I have not been able to change the permission 777 or 775.the error as follows:
    550 Could not change perms on blogs.dir: Operation not permitted

  6. SteveAtty
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    Talk to your hosting company - they should be able to tell you how to do it.

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