Title: Cannot create directory errors
Last modified: September 20, 2018

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# Cannot create directory errors

 *  [infestlithium](https://wordpress.org/support/users/infestlithium/)
 * (@infestlithium)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-directory-errors/)
 * Hi friends!
 * I recently installed another WordPress blog to my site and I noticed I’ve been
   having issues with permissions lately.
 * I noticed the first error when it couldn’t automatically write the config.php
   file during installation. Afterwards, it kept asking for my FTP credentials when
   installing a theme/plugin. While I can do it manually via my file manager on 
   the server end, I can’t through WordPress.
 * Now, all my links on the site are broken and lead to 404 error pages. What’s 
   weird is the other WordPress site I ran was on the previous version and worked
   fine until I switched everything to this new version.
 * I made sure that the folders are correctly permissions (775 for folder and 644
   for files). I’ve Google’d my problems relentlessly and many suggest changing 
   file permission through the terminal on server side but I checked and those permissions
   are still okay.
 * Not sure where to go from here. Any help would be GREAT!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcannot-create-directory-errors%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [abletec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abletec/)
 * (@abletec)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-directory-errors/#post-10708821)
 * Hello, infestlithium, & welcome.
 * There’s much you don’t tell us–specifically, whether you’re hosting on a Linux
   or Windows system, as well as whether your hosting is shared, VPS, or dedicated.
   You also don’t tell us your webserver, ie, Apache, Nginx, IIS, etc. Those are
   all important considerations. Also, is this a single or a multisite installation?
 * At least on a Linux box, file permissions are not the only causes of this sort
   of error. Indeed, usually the problem is not the permissions on the files per
   se, but the ownership. Specifically, the WordPress files need to be run under
   the webserver user & group, either directly or by having the user & group that
   owns the files be a member of the webserver group.
 * You continually refer to versions, etc, & I’m not clear on what you mean by that
   term. If you could assist by explaining a bit of the history behind this, perhaps
   we might better be able to help you.
 * I apologize for having more questions than answers for you at this point, but
   sometimes those questions just need answering in order to solve the problem.
 *  [danthefan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danthefan/)
 * (@danthefan)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-directory-errors/#post-10709696)
 * These symptoms all point to user rights / permissions. Check that. Make sure 
   the owner of your wordpress directory is the webserver user account ( e.g. www-
   data on debian systems )

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [danthefan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danthefan/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-directory-errors/#post-10709696)
 * Status: not resolved

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