Comments on: [Behoben] WordPress 2.5 One-Click Plug-in Upgrades – Could not create directory

By: Sebastian Thomschke

Sebastian Thomschke — Sun, 20 May 2012 23:01:05 +0000

For WordPress 3 or later check if the AskApache Password Protect is installed and deactivate it.

By: Zaadu

Zaadu — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:17:27 +0000

I’m having issue with wordpress 3.2.1 what to do

By: Caleb Madrigal

Caleb Madrigal — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:59:59 +0000

Symmtech, Thank you for posting your solution! I had the same problem issue.

By: Panks

Panks — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:03:23 +0000

Im on VPS and nothing worked for me. Can someone tell me what can be the issue? It happened to all my websites on VPS.

By: progone

progone — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:25:48 +0000

I did as you said, and it did get me a step further. Now I get the error.

Could not create directory. /httpdocs

By: tonyawards

tonyawards — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 08:41:45 +0000

Thank you – this finally worked for me after your script and the chmod -R 777 for wp-content, wp-includes, and wp-plugins – as referenced above by you and Brent Rasmussen.

And – this was for WordPress 3.0.2 — still an issue, I guess, But fixed with this procedure. Now I can (finally) upgrade and install plugins locally in my lampp installation

Thanks!

By: umair

umair — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 11:40:58 +0000

im on 3.2 and nothing works for me

By: Symmtech

Symmtech — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:28:12 +0000

The difference in the /etc/vsftp.conf files was

# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
#write_enable=YES

The new server was configured with the #write_enable=YES commented out like the above. I uncommented it and WP worked.

I use SSH and ftp over ssh mostly and that is why I didn’t notice the ftp write issue earlier.

Hope this helps somebody.

By: Symmtech

Symmtech — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:13:55 +0000

I know this thread is a bit old, but I thought I would post my fix to my problem. I have been searching for weeks trying to find out why I could write to or make directory using wp 2.9.2 ubuntu 10.4 new install. The problem turned out to be in the vsftpd configuration where the local user couldn’t write when posting. I performed a manual ftp and couldn’t post the file using cmd ftp client. I couldn’t write. I then got my vsftpd.conf configuration file from the working (old) server and configured the new server just like the old. After that WP work as always. I will post the difference in the configuration shortly.

By: shawn

shawn — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:06:57 +0000

If you have a VPS or dedicated server you may also want to use the shell to set the permissions. The reason is UMASK. Just because php sets the permissions doesn’t mean that apache has the rights to that folder due to UMASK.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:57:01 +0000

Thanks! I’ve been having this problem ever since I installed WordPress, and I’m surprised it hasn’t been fixed after three major updates.

However, this fix does it every time, and this is the only website I’ve seen so far that has a legitimate fix. All the other sites just say to chmod the folder to 777 (not a good idea all of the time).

By: tijms

tijms — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:29:23 +0000

I had hoped you had solved my problems, but unfortunately the suggested solution(s) didn’t work…

Even if chmodding the directory to 0777 the error remains, despite me using the mkdir fix you suggested.

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? Creating directories and copying files remains a problem despite the liberal file/dir attbs set.

By: Trisya

Trisya — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:27:29 +0000

it worked!!! thanks alot!!

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:18:29 +0000

Thank you SO MUCH – I had tried several solutions.

You are the one who nailed it, thanks again

Ben

By: turkyjulio

turkyjulio — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:25:42 +0000

Thanks a lot, it not just work for WP 2.5 but also WP 2.8. It’s totally helping me…..Gracias.

By: Jimisola

Jimisola — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:24:44 +0000

Thanks. patch + chmod did the works! (WP 2.5.1)

By: Liew Cheon Fong

Liew Cheon Fong — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:27:56 +0000

does not work on wordpress 2.7

By: rivermaya

rivermaya — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:45:47 +0000

if you can’t change permission for upgrade directory, just delete the files inside it and try again to chmod

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By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:07:41 +0000

I just tried all of the suggested hacks on my other WP site that’s hosted externally. Unfortunately, nothing worked but that maybe because it’s running WP 2.7 RC1.

Thanks for the tips though!