[wp-hackers] Directory Writeable Error - File Uploads in 2011

[Robert Lusby]

Sorry - I managed to remove the directory names from the ls -la:

Output of ls -la:
drwxrwxrwx 6 apache apache 4096 2010
drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4096 2010

Then inside 2010:
drwxrwxrwx 3 apache apache 4096 10
drwxrwxrwx 3 apache apache 4096 12
drwxrwxrwx 3 apache apache 4096 12

Thanks again.

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Robert Lusby <nanogwp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We created a website in 2010, and Media Uploads have been working fine.
>
> We just tried our first upload for 2011 and get the following error:
>
> *“filename.jpg” has failed to upload due to an error*
> Unable to create directory
> /var/somefilepath/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2011/02. Is its parent
> directory writable by the server?
>
> Now before saying "Check directory permissions", I'll let you know how it
> currently stands:
>
> 1) /wp-content/uploads/ has full write permissions, and has been working
> fine for creating all the folders in 2010.
>
> 2) The system automatically created the 2011 folder when the above upload
> failed, and gave it 0777 permissions, and it's owned by Apache (the PHP user
> on our system) (all of this is done automatically by WordPress).
>
> 3) So "wp-content/uploads" has write permissions. "wp-content/uploads/2011"
> was created by WordPress, and has the right permissions. It can't create
> wp-content/uploads/2011/02 .. ?
>
> Output of ls -la:
> drwxrwxrwx 6 apache apache 4096
> drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4096
>
> Then inside 2010:
> drwxrwxrwx 3 apache apache 4096
> drwxrwxrwx 3 apache apache 4096
> drwxrwxrwx 3 apache apache 4096
>
> What am I missing? 2010 worked fine - 2011 has the right + same permissions
> set but doesn't work. Sure it must be permission related somehow - but how?
>
> Thanks!
>
>