Cannot upload image file when writing post

mike_ohara
(@mike_ohara)

20 years ago

Hello

I’m new to WordPress and I’m having a problem trying to upload an image file when writing a post. I get the message…

“The uploaded file could not be moved to .”

Can anyone give me a clue why this is happening?

Cheers

Mike O

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pdonovan
(@pdonovan)

19 years, 11 months ago

Mike I’m having the same problem, same situation. I set the permissions of the wp-content/uploads folder to 777 and still get the message when I try to upload an image.

jimgleeson
(@jimgleeson)

19 years, 11 months ago

Perhaps when you upload an image there is no specifications as to where that image is to be sent. I guess the place to start would be in the options-upload area. I had problems earlier with loading my pictures once uploaded, but once I removed a “/” from the beginning of the directory where the picture was located…all was well.

jamiefehr
(@jamiefehr)

19 years, 11 months ago

Is the folder above your uploads folder also set to 777? Also what kind of webserver are you using? I have that file uploads work brilliantly on Apache, but are not nearly as fun on IIS or Lighttpd.

mellowvision
(@mellowvision)

19 years, 7 months ago

I am having this issue as well. Upon initial install, there was no uploads folder that I could see… even after creating an uploads folder manually using ftp, images are not placed there, and I still get the “images could not be moved to .” statement.

Samuel B
(@samboll)

19 years, 7 months ago

The 1st time you use this /wp-content must be chmod 777 to create uploads folder and upload image – then revert back to chmod 755.

mellowvision
(@mellowvision)

19 years, 7 months ago

I was able to chmod wp-content and it created the uploads folder, but still cannot move the image into it. I can see that the folder was created. I tried to chmod it to 777 but the server wouldn’t allow it. I am now getting the same message…

The uploaded file could not be moved to .

mellowvision
(@mellowvision)

19 years, 7 months ago

I checked the box “organize into subsets by month and year” in the options, and now get this error

Unable to create directory /home/virtual/site36/fst/var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/11. Is its parent directory writable by the server?