{"id":607,"date":"2022-01-09T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T10:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:29:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T10:59:33","slug":"how-to-solve-unable-to-create-directory-wp-content-uploads-is-its-parent-directory-writable-by-the-server-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/how-to-solve-unable-to-create-directory-wp-content-uploads-is-its-parent-directory-writable-by-the-server-error\/","title":{"rendered":"How to solve \u201cUnable to Create Directory wp-content\/uploads. Is its Parent Directory Writable by the Server?\u201d error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To solve this annoying error, you need to change the path of the old uploads folder to the new one. Follow these steps to solve the problem:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to your WordPress admin panel (wp-admin).<\/li>\n<li>In the left menu go to\u00a0<code>Settings<\/code>\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0<code>Media<\/code>.<br \/>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2760 entered lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Media-Settings-WordPress.png\" alt=\"Media Settings - WordPress\" width=\"159\" height=\"208\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Media-Settings-WordPress.png\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li>In the\u00a0<strong>Store uploads in this folder<\/strong>\u00a0field, enter\u00a0<code>wp-content\/uploads<\/code>\u00a0and click\u00a0<strong>Save changes<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2761 entered lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change-WordPress-uploads-folder.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change-WordPress-uploads-folder.jpg 845w, https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Change-WordPress-uploads-folder-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change-WordPress-uploads-folder-768x275.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Change WordPress Uploads Folder\" width=\"845\" height=\"303\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change-WordPress-uploads-folder.jpg 845w, https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change-WordPress-uploads-folder-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change-WordPress-uploads-folder-768x275.jpg 768w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li>Now you are done, go and try to upload files to the media library again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"has-background\">NOTE: make sure that the\u00a0<strong>Store uploads in this folder<\/strong> field contain\u00a0<code>wp-content\/uploads<\/code>\u00a0only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To solve this annoying error, you need to change the path of the old uploads folder to the new one.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.createagile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}