Recently after changing the hosting
server. I came across a strange problem with my WordPress blog. I was
not able to upload any images and getting the below error.
Unable to create directory uploads/2013/11. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
On Googleling I
got various solutions to fix this problem but unfortunately nothing
worked. All those solutions were related to directory permission issue,
which was not the case with my problem, because of which it didn’t
worked. This problem is caused due to wrong directory path or when WordPress
doesn’t have permission to write in the ‘upload’ directory. Here I am
giving you two solutions to this problem. I had the wrong directly path
problem and the first solution worked for me.
1. Correcting the path of Upload directory
On the previous host, that blog was installed at the root directory, the path to upload directory was
/home/blogname/public_html/wp-content/uploads
but on the new host the blog was not installed on the root directory and the path to uploads folder was
public_html/blogname/wp-content/uploads
Because of this path mismatch WordPress
was not able to write to the uploads folder and I was getting the Unable
to create directory upload error.
From the WordPress dashboard. I went to Settings->Media
and changed the folder path to just
wp-content/uploads this solved the problem. In the new version of
WordPress this option is not available. You can use the WordPress plugin
WP Original Media path to get the option to update the path.
2. Change Upload Folder Permissions
Many WordPress plugins
and scripts can change the upload folder permission. To update the
permission, go to the File Manager from the cPanel. Select the
Wp-content folder and change the permission settings to 775. You can
find the change permission button at the top. After changing the
permission try uploading from WordPress again. If it does not work then
try changing it to 777. If that also didn’t work then change the
permission of wp-contents/uploads in the same manner. It should fix the
problem.
If those solutions didn’t work then try contacting your host. It might
be possible that the disk space allocated to you by your host has been
used up, and as a result you are prevented from uploading more files.
