Comments on: upload folder permissions on WordPress installation on verio VPS http://www.wesedholm.com/2010/01/27/upload-folder-permissions-on-wordpress-installation-on-verio-vps/ Currently stuck on a plateau Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:10:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: Wes http://www.wesedholm.com/2010/01/27/upload-folder-permissions-on-wordpress-installation-on-verio-vps/comment-page-1/#comment-2318 Wes Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:02:43 +0000 http://www.wesedholm.com/?p=515#comment-2318 Thanks for posting.... I finally called in to support and got this issue fixed along with a couple others... blogged about it here: <a href="http://www.wesedholm.com/2011/08/23/how-to-get-wordpress-to-upgrade-automatically-on-via-verio-linux-not-windows/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wesedholm.com/2011/08/23/how-to-get-wo...</a> Thanks for posting…. I finally called in to support and got this issue fixed along with a couple others… blogged about it here:
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]]> By: Verio Tier II http://www.wesedholm.com/2010/01/27/upload-folder-permissions-on-wordpress-installation-on-verio-vps/comment-page-1/#comment-2272 Verio Tier II Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:34:49 +0000 http://www.wesedholm.com/?p=515#comment-2272 I'm pretty sure you might have figured this out by now.. and maybe not, but.. I would check your ownership and permissions for the wp-content and uploads directory. You truly should only need them to be 755, and then the ownership on the directories to be your user, example: drwxr-xr-x 5 user user 4.0K Jul 7 11:44 wp-content When attempting to build any CMS sites on any of our VPS accounts, permissions will always be an issue if you're attempting to use the default location /www/htdocs (/var/www/html). The issue is due to your user not being the root user, and not being able to FTP to those directories, because they belong to root. Your administrative user can upload using a FTP client, but you're not going to be able to do it, using any web script, since web users don't have permission to write to your site, and would be a security risk if they were able to. Now, if you're set up under a virtual host, and you're still having those same issues, I would look back on how your ownership is set up for those directories, but you shouldn't need any permissions higher than 755 on your wp-content directory. Sorry if I wasn't too clear, or added way too much on the explanation.. but, I truly hope this helps. I use our servers as well, and I love Wordpress. Good luck! I'm pretty sure you might have figured this out by now.. and maybe not, but.. I would check your ownership and permissions for the wp-content and uploads directory. You truly should only need them to be 755, and then the ownership on the directories to be your user, example:

drwxr-xr-x 5 user user 4.0K Jul 7 11:44 wp-content

When attempting to build any CMS sites on any of our VPS accounts, permissions will always be an issue if you're attempting to use the default location /www/htdocs (/var/www/html). The issue is due to your user not being the root user, and not being able to FTP to those directories, because they belong to root.

Your administrative user can upload using a FTP client, but you're not going to be able to do it, using any web script, since web users don't have permission to write to your site, and would be a security risk if they were able to.

Now, if you're set up under a virtual host, and you're still having those same issues, I would look back on how your ownership is set up for those directories, but you shouldn't need any permissions higher than 755 on your wp-content directory.

Sorry if I wasn't too clear, or added way too much on the explanation.. but, I truly hope this helps. I use our servers as well, and I love WordPress. Good luck!

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