Comments on: Upload Permissions for WordPress in Plesk

By: Jonas Rullo

Jonas Rullo — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:24:57 +0000

The solution may be all of the above as well, however, double check the “..” directory permissions in the uploads directory also. cd into the uploads directory and run the command “ls -la”. You should see the first directory as “.” and the next one as “..”. On my 1and1.com Plesk 10 installation, the permission on my “..” directory was not changed to 777 even when explicitly setting permissions recursively on the uploads directory. I had to explicitly set permission on “..” using “chmod 777 ..” after changing directory into the uploads directory. There are spaces between chmod, 777 and the double dots. Uploads inside WordPress worked after this command was run. It should not matter if your shell in the plesk subscription/domain is sh, bash, or chroot, etc. Files uploaded will have group and owner set to apache. The uploads directory itself is still the account owner as plesk account name created ownership and group name as psacln.

By: Gilbert

Gilbert — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:07:57 +0000

I had the same problem, to remedy the situation, I changed the “PHP support” (in the Hosting Settings) from “Apache module” to “FastCGI applications”. This is on Plesk 10.1.1 system.

Hope this will help some of you.

By: Directory Permissions for Wordpress under Plesk/Linux | Ian Dunn

Directory Permissions for Wordpress under Plesk/Linux | Ian Dunn — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:25:10 +0000

[...] Diehl describes the right way to setup directory permissions on a Linux box running Plesk so that WordPress can automatically create … it uses to store uploads. Basically, you need to make sure that PHP’s safe mode is turned off [...]

By: Directory Permissions for Wordpress under Plesk/Linux | Ian Dunn, Seattle web developer

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:32:51 +0000

By: Paul Milligan

Paul Milligan — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:00:56 +0000

Thank you! I love the way on the internet all known problems have been found and solved by some expert like yourself, it’s just a matter of using the right words in Google. Now I can add some pictures to my website>

By: Leonard Challis

Leonard Challis — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:08:17 +0000

I used to do a similar thing, but then realised that when I wanted to make changes I had to chown my files again or repeat steps I’d earlier taken to fix the problem. I also didn’t like the idea of having my files owner/group different to other files on the web server – as it could cause difficulatires when it came to custom backup scripts and replication, etc.

What I ended up doing was adding my Apache user account to the Plesk user’s group and making all files writable by that group too. Simple blog post here: http://blog.leonardchallis.com/servers/getting-file-permissions-right-in-wordpress/

By: Manuel Moreno

Manuel Moreno — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:23:20 +0000

Very useful! Thanks a lot.

By: Stuart Turner

Stuart Turner — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:40:04 +0000

Hi,

Very useful – cured my upload / install plugins issue once and for all!

Kind regards,

- Stuart

By: Lothar

Lothar — Sat, 08 May 2010 16:43:26 +0000

How dangerous is it to set the permissions to “777″?

By: Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:29:40 +0000

Hi Jason,
I think I will need to move that account to my own VPS, I don’t have any issues with it (has suPHP installed). I didn’t really want to because the host is so fast and located locally, but with caching and a local edge server for files it should be fine.
Thanks for the tips! I really appreciate it!
Matt