Can't upload & install theme

  • mininguys

    (@mininguys)


    12 years ago

    Hello guys I’m new to wordpress and this forum.
    I’ve self hosted website with wordpress installed. Two days ago I was able to upload theme(.zip) without any problem. Now I wanted to try another theme so when I try to upload, i get this messages:
    The uploaded file could not be moved to wp-content/uploads/2014/05.

    I could upload theme via ftp but that is hard for me. So please help me

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  • Lunatic59

    (@lunatic59)

    12 years ago

    Sounds like a permissions issue to me. What kind of server are you running?

    Thread Starter mininguys

    (@mininguys)

    12 years ago

    All folders & file permission are 755. Well its a ftp server provided by one of my friend to me.

    Lunatic59

    (@lunatic59)

    12 years ago

    Do you know which operating system/version your friend is running? I had problems with installing themes and plugins until I set ownership to the webservice.

    on RedHat/CentOS it would be chown -R apache:apache
    on Ubuntu i beleive it’s chown -R www-data:www-data

    Thread Starter mininguys

    (@mininguys)

    12 years ago

    His server is using nginx. What should be done?

    Lunatic59

    (@lunatic59)

    12 years ago

    I don’t have a lot of experience with nginx, but it looks like for Ubuntu Server the user:group remains www-data. For CentOS/RedHat, if he used the defaults it would be nginx:nginx

    You can have a read through this to see if it helps.

    https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-wordpress-with-nginx-on-centos-6–2

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