Title: Directory not writeable by server? Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Directory not writeable by server? * Resolved [colinodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinodle/) * (@colinodle) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-not-writeable-by-server/) * So this is now my second wordpress site in the work. My first one ran so smooth without ease. Now i’m having issues this time around. I originally had a bad theme issue that i had re FTP my theme from a new download to get it all to work. Now that it’s all there file wise I’m trying to upload media or a pic to a background and i’m getting this message… * “maybe.jpg” has failed to upload due to an error Unable to create directory / home/ducemanc/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2011/09. Is its parent directory writable by the server? * Does anyone have a clue..? Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * [ijunkey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ijunkey/) * (@ijunkey) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-not-writeable-by-server/#post-2296728) * Fix# * > FTP your site. > Go to Directory /home/ducemanc/public_html/wp-content/ Change the permission of the upload folder as below 7 5 5 user group world r+w+x r+x r+x 4+2+1 4+0+1 4+0+1 = 755 * The permission mode is computed by adding up the following values for the user, the file group, and for everyone else. The diagram shows how. * Read 4 – Allowed to read files Write 2 – Allowed to write/modify files eXecute1– Read/write/delete/modify/directory * [ijunkey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ijunkey/) * (@ijunkey) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-not-writeable-by-server/#post-2296729) * The same is true for /wp-content/cache/ and maybe /wp-content/uploads/ (if you’re using MultiSite you may also need to do this for /wp-content/blogs.dir/) * Thread Starter [colinodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinodle/) * (@colinodle) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-not-writeable-by-server/#post-2296736) * makes sense. Is there a reason I never had to do this the first time around? * Thread Starter [colinodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinodle/) * (@colinodle) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-not-writeable-by-server/#post-2296737) * Also im a noob so don’t laugh when i ask you this but I’m using filezilla so ware would i located whatever it is I’m adding these codes to * [ijunkey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ijunkey/) * (@ijunkey) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-not-writeable-by-server/#post-2296738) * It depends on the servers on which you have hosted. They might have updated some patches for Apache or PHP, that forced restricted permissions. * [ijunkey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ijunkey/) * (@ijunkey) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-not-writeable-by-server/#post-2296739) * Right click the directories you want to change and choose file attributes… * Thread Starter [colinodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinodle/) * (@colinodle) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-not-writeable-by-server/#post-2296741) * thats been done it’s still having errors * [ijunkey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ijunkey/) * (@ijunkey) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-not-writeable-by-server/#post-2296743) * Try changing permission to 777 or Log into your WordPress Admin account. Go to ‘Media’ Settings options from the ‘Settings’ menu. In the Media Settings put wp-content/uploads in the “Store uploads in this folder” text box. * Save the Changes by hitting the “Save Changes” button. * [ijunkey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ijunkey/) * (@ijunkey) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-not-writeable-by-server/#post-2296745) * if its not ‘Media’ then it would be ‘Miscellaneous’ for older version of wordpress. * Thread Starter [colinodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinodle/) * (@colinodle) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-not-writeable-by-server/#post-2296748) * hmm still nothing iv tried it all and i have the newest wordpress * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-not-writeable-by-server/#post-2296844) * colinodle – Make sure you changed the permissions for all folders. * If you set it on home/ducemanc/public_html/wp-content/uploads/, you may ALSO need to set it on home/ducemanc/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2011 and home/ ducemanc/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2011/09 * Going forward it should be okay, but you may need to do that first bit manually. * Thread Starter [colinodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinodle/) * (@colinodle) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-not-writeable-by-server/#post-2296865) * thank you all so much it works now i had two files that the permissions didn’t match up Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) The topic ‘Directory not writeable by server?’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 12 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [colinodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinodle/) * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-not-writeable-by-server/#post-2296865) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics