Wordpress - Can't upload images

ronnie · 2007-02-25, 06:25 PM

Thought I was getting the hang of wordpress but ran into a snag. I found out I can't upload images. I get the following error:

Unable to create directory
/path/to/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/02.
Is its parent directory writable by the server?

I noticed there is no uploads directory. I am guessing wordpress was suppose to create that directory when I installed wordpress? Of course I can create the uploads directory by hand, but then I have to chmod to 777 for image upload to work. Sure don't want to run that way. I talked to a friend and their content dir is 755, my MT blogs are the same way. 755 won't work, keep getting the error.

Even the wordpress site says to have permissions set to 777 for the content directory. Not real safe to me.

Any thoughts or reasons? I am stuck on this one.

Thanks in advance.

2007-02-25, 06:25 PM	#1
ronnie Wheither you think you can or you think you can't, Your right. Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: midwest Posts: 2,274	Wordpress - Can't upload images Thought I was getting the hang of wordpress but ran into a snag. I found out I can't upload images. I get the following error: Unable to create directory /path/to/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/02. Is its parent directory writable by the server? I noticed there is no uploads directory. I am guessing wordpress was suppose to create that directory when I installed wordpress? Of course I can create the uploads directory by hand, but then I have to chmod to 777 for image upload to work. Sure don't want to run that way. I talked to a friend and their content dir is 755, my MT blogs are the same way. 755 won't work, keep getting the error. Even the wordpress site says to have permissions set to 777 for the content directory. Not real safe to me. Any thoughts or reasons? I am stuck on this one. Thanks in advance.