Title: WordPress admin media upload
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# WordPress admin media upload

 *  [visanu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/visanu/)
 * (@visanu)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-admin-media-upload/)
 * Hi,
 * I have a access to the server where many wordpress blogs are hosted. Initially
   the permission to uploads folder were set to 777(Recursively) but this caused
   problems to our server and malicious files where uploaded due to which our server
   is blacklisted.
 * I have deleted all those PHP files under uploads folder and set the permission
   to 755.
 * Now the problem is that the admin users to wordpress blogs/sites unable to upload
   media files.
 * Please guide me what I can do so that they can upload files (images or videos).
 * Can we set something which will ask FTP details when they upload files using 
   wordpress admin. I can create FTP users for this.
 * Please Guide.

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 *  [InterServer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/interservernet-web-hosting/)
 * (@interservernet-web-hosting)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-admin-media-upload/#post-6752829)
 * The updated permission 755 for “uploads” directory is correct. Could you please
   provide more details about the error you are getting during upload?

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## Tags

 * [file permission](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/file-permission/)
 * [media uploads](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media-uploads/)

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