Title: Hosting Issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Hosting Issue

 *  [dangerdan27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dangerdan27/)
 * (@dangerdan27)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-issue-1/)
 * OK, this might be a little long, but I want to make sure I get at what my problem
   is. I have a WordPress blog installed on a subdomain of my main page. My host
   is relatively well-regarded, but is also a little persnickety about the security
   settings on the hosting (the primary site is membership-only).
 * Here’s the deal: my blog is installed on blog.mysite.com, but in the hosting,
   the files are kept in mysite.com/blog. Whenever I go to automatically update 
   or upload files from within the dashboard, it won’t work. For example, these 
   are the errors I get when I try to update my plugins:
 * Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Unable to create file D:\Inetpub\vhosts\preprintsnow.
   com\httpdocs\blog/wp-content/tmp because Permission denied in D:\Inetpub\vhosts\
   preprintsnow.com\httpdocs\blog\wp-admin\includes\file.php on line 199
 * Warning: fopen(D:\Inetpub\vhosts\preprintsnow.com\httpdocs\blog/wp-content/tmp)[
   function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in D:\Inetpub\vhosts\
   preprintsnow.com\httpdocs\blog\wp-admin\includes\class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php
   on line 120
 * I am also now running a theme that makes it difficult to tell where to upload
   my header image through an FTP client. It has an automated image uploader in 
   the dashboard, but again, I get a message saying the upload directory is not 
   writeable.
 * I’ve contacted my host with the suggestions given in older forum posts (set directories
   to 755 and files to 644), is there anything else I should be looking for to make
   this work right?

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 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-issue-1/#post-1893280)
 * You should try to resolve it with your host. They should be able to tell you 
   the server file paths that would work with your installation the way it is.
 * having blog.domain.com point to a server file path of /rootfolder/blog/ is pretty
   typical.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-issue-1/#post-1893280)
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