Title: Write permissions problem
Last modified: November 16, 2016

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# Write permissions problem

 *  Resolved [Cyberdave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberdave/)
 * (@cyberdave)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-permissions-problem/)
 * I had version 4.3.1 and it was working and I upgraded to 4.6.1 and now I am getting
   a write permissions problem issue when I try to backup.
    I tried uninstalling
   and reinstalling the plugin and tried again but that didnt work. It seemed that
   after uninstalling from the dashboard the directories (plugin and upload/db-backup)
   were not removed and so I removed them and then reinstalled from scratch. However
   the upload/db-backup directory was not recreated so I created it. I used permissions
   775. The plugin still had an error:
 * >  WP Database Backup
   >  Error: Permission denied, make sure you have write permission
   > for /home/mydir/public_html/mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/db-backup folder
 * I gave it 777 and tried again and that worked. On putting it back to 775 the 
   error occurs again.
    The documentation does not give the exact directory permissions
   needed. It just says you need to be able to write to it. As far I know from what
   I have read (and in terms of security), no folder in the uploads directory should
   have permissions of 777.
 * What are the correct permissions the directory needs?
 * How can I fix this if at all?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Prashant Walke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/walkeprashant/)
 * (@walkeprashant)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-permissions-problem/#post-8448264)
 * Hi,
 * This is generally caused by an access denied problem.
    You don’t have permission
   to write in the wp-content/uploads. Please check if you have the read write permission
   on the folder. Please try to set permission 777 and click on ‘Create New Database
   Backup’ Button.
 * Might be there is no backup folder exist on your server (i.e db-backup) so that
   may be chances for this error.
 * If you have still issue then please share your login and FTP detail on [walke.prashant28@gmail.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-permissions-problem/walke.prashant28@gmail.com?output_format=md)
 * OR raise ticket on [http://www.wpseeds.com/support](http://www.wpseeds.com/support)
 *  Thread Starter [Cyberdave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberdave/)
 * (@cyberdave)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-permissions-problem/#post-8467314)
 * It turns out that the reason it is not working as expected and needs to have 
   permissions set to 777 is because on my host’s shared server, they run the php
   handler mod_php (DSO) and as it turns out, that is how it has to work.
 *  [Prashant Walke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/walkeprashant/)
 * (@walkeprashant)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-permissions-problem/#post-8468868)
 * Hi,
 * Can you please share your WordPress site login and FTP detail on [walke.prashant28@gmail.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-permissions-problem/walke.prashant28@gmail.com?output_format=md)
 * OR raise ticket on [http://www.wpseeds.com/support](http://www.wpseeds.com/support)
 * So that i can check exact issue.

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 * Last reply from: [Prashant Walke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/walkeprashant/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-permissions-problem/#post-8468868)
 * Status: resolved