Image Upload Problems with WordPress?
Posted by Matt | Filed under Wordpress
Here’s the fix if your WordPress version 2.6 or 2.7 is failing on image uploads with
The uploaded file could not be moved to /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/wp/wp-content/uploads.
Before you read further, please note A) these instructions are for *nix servers (typically Linux), not Windows servers, so ask your host which you have if you don’t know, B) you’ll need to ssh into your server and run command line commands, and C) I have the very macho root access to my Linux/Apache server, so I can run chown commands. Most hosts will disallow you root access, and you’ll simply have to ask your tech support to do this. That shouldn’t be a problem.
Having said that, you want the ownership and permissions to look like this for these three important directories:
wp-content drwxr-xr-x (755) user group uploads drwxr-xr-x (755) apache apache themes drwxr-xr-x (755) user group
and PHP safe_mode is OFF
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Tags: /wp-content/uploads, PHP safe_mode, The uploaded file could not be moved, Wordpress, WordPress permissions, WordPress upload