I am in a really interesting situation right now.
After migrating a client website from a development environment using, WP Clone by WP Academy, I get this error when trying to upload images via the Worpress media uploader.
“image.png” has failed to upload due to an error
Unable to create directory uploads/2015/07. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
I logged into Godaddy and change the entire uploads/ folder permission via ssh to 777 (crazy enough). And all its contents.
I still got the same error.
After probing a little deeper, I found out the website is running from a different location than the machine i am sshed into.
What do I mean?
When I run pwd via ssh, to see my current working directory I get.
-bash-4.2$ pwd
/home/clientname/html/wp-content/uploads
But In the Wordpress setting at, Settings -> Media
The option "store uploads in this folder" has a value of
/home4/d***71/public_html/website.url/wp-content/uploads
Meaning The site files are copied and hosted in a different location than that given via the SSH, This is probably due to the fact that Godaddy's managed wordpress hosting has some special cache setting configured beyond the control of the user.
The problem now is how do I correct the File Permission issue and have my uploads working properly.
:)
I am just adding this, if anyone ran into the same issue in future.
Log into your GoDaddy account.
Go to the Hosting page.
Click Manage
Select File Manager for the domain you want to edit the permission (this is, if you have multiple domains)
Navigate to the folder where you have installed the WordPress.
Hover on the 'wp-content' and you should able to see an arrow, click to see the option called 'Change Permissions'.
You should able to see all the Permission details in this window.
login into your godaddy panel and click file manager
click or open your project folder
locate upload folder and click on check box
click into the privacy icon and check inherit an SET ALL SUB FOLDERS TO INHERIT PERMISSIONS both checkboxes
The "Hover" didn't work for me. What DID work was to go to the directory above, put ONE check in a box for a DIRECTORY (not a file), and then click on "Privacy".
GoDaddy Permissions
If you check more than one folder, OR a file, you won't get the permissions eyeball to light up.
So, to fix a file permission you would have to go to the level above, and change "Set all subfolders to inherit permissions".
Apparently you can't change some files and not others - just the parent folder, which then sets all the files (is my guess).
This is NOT a limitation of Windows, it's the broken way they establish permissions.
Anyway - hopefully that will work. Tech support confirmed the drop down doesn't work anymore.
== John ==
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I've recently moved my WP site from godaddy to a physical sever using windows server 2012 R2.
But I'm having problem uploading files using the Admin panel, After uploading the file, I can see it physically on the server (wp-content\upload\2017\10)
But I can't see it on the website it self.
I can only see the file if I'm changing it permissions on the server it self.
I've changed the permissions to the folder, I gave full access to the relevant users. But still, it doesn't work for new files\pictures I'm uploading via the wp admin panel
Edit:
I've notice that every time I come to change the folder permissions the permissions under CREATOR OWNER are always empty, Is it Related ?
Thank you very much for the help
When you upload a file, PHP sends the file to a temporary directory on your server's hard drive (usually C:\Windows\Temp) and then copies it over to the proper directory. Once the file has is initially put in the temporary directory, it gets the permissions of that directory. The problem is when Windows moves that file to the proper place, it keeps the temporary directory’s permissions, which can cause access problems.
The way to fix this is to change the temporary directory to a folder within your WordPress installation, usually wp-content/upgrade.
To do this, follow these directions:
Find your php.ini file.
Find the upload_tmp_dir line, and change it to the wp-content/upgrade folder.
Browse to this folder and verify that the permissions are set properly.
You should then have the ability to properly view all your images. You'll most likely need to select all the previous selected images, and change the owner of the files to the web folder owner. Then you should be good to go!
If you can’t upload an image at all, it’s probably because you need to give the IUSR account Read/Write/Modify permission on your wp-content folder. This will allow you to upload, and do the WordPress & plugin updates.
Once you have done that, all you need to do is give the IIS_IUSRS group Read permissions on your “C:\Windows\Temp” folder.
Make sure to notice that the two permission changes you make are not for the same user/group. Give IUSR permissions on your wp-content folder and IIS_IUSRS permissions on your Windows temp folder.
Note: If you have edited your php.ini file and change the upload temp directory then you will need to give IIS_IUSRS group read permissions on that folder instead.
That should do it, or at least it worked for me.
http://chris.wastedhalo.com/2011/01/wordpress-upload-permissions-on-iis-7-fix/
I find myself coming back to this question time after time when images I add to the Media Gallery don't have the correct permissions in the WordPress Uploads folder. Since I develop WordPress sites locally, it would be a pain to set permission on the Uploads folder every time I work on a new site.
To fix this, I created a folder "C:\Websites\Temp" without messing around with permissions or security settings, etc. Then in MAMP, I edited the php.ini template of the PHP version I was using for this site, php7.3.0.ini (File, Edit Tempate, PHP). I then set upload_tmp_dir to "C:\Websites\Temp":
; Temporary directory for HTTP uploaded files (will use system default if not
; specified).
upload_tmp_dir = c:\websites\temp
and voila, no more permission issues.
Well, a few years later, found this post. Tried it. Failed.
Other solution is to assign a specific user to the site in IIS and apply the right permisions to the folder containing the site.
I have an ASP.NET 2.0 application under IIS 8.5 in Classic mode where a page needs to write uploaded files to a folder outside the root of the app. When I first tired this I got something like
Access to the path 'D:\events\uploads\myfile.txt' is denied.
In the Security tab of D:\events I added "IIS AppPool/MyAppPool" and activated the Write permission. Everything worked fine then - as it should.
However, after removing the MyAppPool from D:\events again the same page was still able to write files under D:\events. Scary. A few experiments showed that that the page can now write files everywhere except C:\ C:\Windows C:\Users and D:.
UPDATE: To check which user or group might give access to IIS/ASP.NET I have created a folder C:\TestIISAccess disabled permission inheritance and gradually removed users and groups. Well, there are none left now, I can not even look inside the folder as admin. But my .aspx upload page reports it can still write files there. I have stopped & restarted IIS after all users were removed, makes no difference.
Can some please explain this behaviour and tell me how to cancel the write permission?
I am trying to upload images via the dashboard but it gives me the following error,
Unable to create directory uploads/2015/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
I read forum posts online which guided to change the folder permissions to 777. I did so but the error is still there. Please guide me. Thanks.
Note: I have also updated to the latest version of WordPress but that does not solve the problem.
Many of the people face this problem this is just a permission Issue
Follow Below Step
1)Open Ftp by filezilla or any ftp client
2)Right Click on Wp_contnet Folder
3) Change Permissions From 755 TO 777(Please Make Sure That 777 permission to all in side folder's under wp_content)
4) Than Try to Upload File Agin and its'done
If you checked the permission then try this solution :
Please login to the wordpress dashboard ( http://www.domainname.com/wp-admin ) and access the Miscellaneous settings. Find the uploads path specified, it will most likely be specified as:
"/wp-content/uploads/
Change it to read
"wp-content/uploads/
change your wp-content folder's writing permission
Step 1: Open your File Manager and navigate to the file or folder that you need to change.
Step 2: Click on the name of the file or folder.
Step 3: Click on the Change Permissions link in the top menu of the File Manager page.
Step 4: Click on as many check boxes as you require to create the right permission. The permission numbers underneath the check boxes will update automatically.
Step 5: Click on the Change Permissions button when you are ready. The new permission level is saved and the display updated to show the modified file.
Some time when you upload image so this issue arise just try to change permission level to 744 but select only for directories and try to change the permission level to 644 this time for files hope this will works for you .
I have wordpress on my windows server. Pictures and files are uploading but when i trying to access these files the server showing up with
500 - Internal server error.
There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.
When I searched for error i found some solutions about IIS but it didn't work. Can anyone cross with this permission error? And what is the solution.
Thanks
When you upload a file, PHP sends the file to a temporary directory on your server's hard drive (usually C:\Windows\Temp) and then copies it over to the proper directory. Once the file has is initially put in the temporary directory, it gets the permissions of that directory. The problem is when Windows moves that file to the proper place, it keeps the temporary directory’s permissions, which can cause access problems.
The way to fix this is to change the temporary directory to a folder within your WordPress installation, usually wp-content/upgrade.
To do this, follow these directions:
Find your php.ini file.
Find the upload_tmp_dir line, and change it to the wp-content/upgrade folder.
Browse to this folder and verify that the permissions are set properly.
You should then have the ability to properly view all your images. You'll most likely need to select all the previous selected images, and change the owner of the files to the web folder owner. Then you should be good to go!
For some reason my admin screen just hangs with some javascript errors. I have it installed on xampp on windows 7 ultimate 64bit. What could be causing this? Ill post a screenshot of the errors any help would be nice! p.s. This is my first time installing silverstripe ever so be nice. :)
This sort of things usually occurs when combined asset files cannot be created. Make sure the web server user has write access to the assets/ and assets/_combinedfiles folders, then go to your-site.com/admin/pages?flush=1.
Alternatively, since this is a local install, run in dev mode. There are instructions in the documentation on how to set this.
As indicated by #simon_w, this issue occurs due to the folder permissions:
In your local environment, in addition to the way via yml config, you can just put the following in _config.php inside mysite folder.
Director::set_environment_type("dev");
In dev mode, the installation doesnt need to write to assets/_combinedfiles. However, you had better have write permission for assets folder anyway.
So, just increase permissions for assets and directories under it. Uploaded files are also stored there, if not sufficient permission, you can't upload files from the admin panel. Other functionalists may also be affected.