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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [The uploaded file could not be moved to /var/www/vhosts/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-uploaded-file-could-not-be-moved-to-varwwwvhosts/)
 *  [ashleybmeyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashleybmeyer/)
 * (@ashleybmeyer)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-uploaded-file-could-not-be-moved-to-varwwwvhosts/#post-2991560)
 * I had this same issue. When trying to upload files (for blog posts) from the 
   wp-admin web view, I was getting the error “The uploaded file could not be moved
   to public/blog/wp-content/uploads”. My stuff is hosted on NFS (nearlyfreespeech.
   net) and I normally use Cyberduck to upload things and whatnot.
 * I’d already changed the permissions of /wp-content/uploads to 777 (read, write,
   and execute permission for owner, group, and others), but it still wasn’t letting
   me upload!
 * The trick that fixed it was changing the name of the /uploads folder to /broken-
   uploads, and then creating a new /uploads folder.
 * Since this isn’t possible in Cyberduck (dunno why), I opened Mac Terminal and
   used SSH to log into my wp-admin. If you’ve never used terminal or command line,
   these are the commands to accomplish this:
 * `ssh username@hostname`
    (this logs you into your host) `cd blog` `cd wp-content`(
   this brings you into your wp-content folder, mine is within a folder called blog)`
   ls -alh` (this shows you all the folders contents so you can confirm /uploads
   already has rwxrwxrwx) `mv uploads broken-uploads` (this renames /uploads to /
   broken-uploads) `mkdir uploads` (this creates the new /uploads folder) `ls -alh`(
   make sure you see /uploads in the list, as well as your old /broken-uploads) `
   chmod 777 uploads` (fixes the permissions to let your web wp-admin read write
   and execute) `ls -alh` (double-check that rwxrwxrwx is next to uploads)
 * You should be good to go!

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