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

[Robert Lusby]

Maybe I should learn to type! *sighs*

You get the idea ...

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Robert Lusby <nanogwp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
>>
>>
>