Title: Error message when uploading media!! Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Error message when uploading media!! * [vlad7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vlad7/) * (@vlad7) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-uploading-media/) * Hi everyone, * Whenever I try to upload an image into my media library I get this message: * Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/2009/08. Is its parent directory writable by the server? * Anyone know how I can fix this? * Thanks for your time! Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-uploading-media/#post-1192608) * Change the permissions on the wp-content directory to 766. If you still have problems, try 767 or 777. [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions) * Thread Starter [vlad7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vlad7/) * (@vlad7) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-uploading-media/#post-1192650) * Where do I change the permission? Sorry but that article you linked is quite long and complicated. * I was able to upload a couple of pictures into my library before but now I cant. I might have changed the way permalinks were created, I’m not sure if that would have affected it? * Thanks for your time. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-uploading-media/#post-1192653) * Try the wp-content directory or the wp-content/uploads directory * Thread Starter [vlad7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vlad7/) * (@vlad7) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-uploading-media/#post-1192672) * I right clicked the wp-content folder, went to the “security” tab and I saw that all users have permission to access the files * Thread Starter [vlad7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vlad7/) * (@vlad7) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-uploading-media/#post-1192675) * This is the errors that appear on my host’s logs * [Thu Aug 27 15:54:44 2009] [error] [client 66.249.68.184] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts- 20060613/pdo.so’ – /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/pdo. so: undefined symbol: compiler_globals in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Aug 27 15:54: 44 2009] [error] [client 66.249.68.184] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/pdo_sqlite. so’ – /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/pdo_sqlite.so: undefined symbol: core_globals in Unknown on line 0 * Thread Starter [vlad7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vlad7/) * (@vlad7) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-uploading-media/#post-1192685) * I went on my Host’s file manager directory and i changed the file permissions of both wp-content directory and the wp-content/uploads directory to “777”. I am still showing the same error when i try to upload a picture through wordpress: * “Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/2009/08. Is its parent directory writable by the server?” * Can anyone help? * Thank you! * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-uploading-media/#post-1192850) * Contact your hosting provider about the errors. * [henkholland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henkholland/) * (@henkholland) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-uploading-media/#post-1192882) * I read a topic once that in some php/host situations, due to strict safety settings WP never was allowed to create any directory. As for me. So I forgot, alas, about monthly based directory’s and created the direcory “uploads” through my ftp program and gave it 0777. Then I could upload to it. It’s in wp-content and that one has also 0777 for me. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Error message when uploading media!!’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [media](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media/) * [message](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/message/) * [upload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [henkholland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henkholland/) * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-uploading-media/#post-1192882) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics