I agreed with @Rinzwind do not give 777 permission to uploads directory, It means anyone ( including your visitor) can upload files in this ...
Isn't it supposed to use the parent directory's permissions? No, according to this file permissions n creation are set by apache.
This is a custom result inserted after the second result.
Checked the ownership of all folders/files under wordpress, everything shows cpanel user as the user:group, nothing is owned by 'root'.
I found the problem. In settings > media the folder for uploads was actually pointing to a different path.
I'm using this simple script to set all the correct permissions on the file system to keep the WordPress installation as secure as possible, but ...
Try running: ps -ef | grep apache. and look at the left-most column corresponding to the Apache server. This is the user that is running ...
Prepare the permissions on a test VM. Make sure that Wordpress is happy with them. You can have a set of premissions during the update, then ...
I've been at Stack for a year now, and I'd like to share with you one of my worst days at work, and what it taught me about the Stack Overflow ...
I am running WordPress on an Apache 2.2.2 server, on a Linux machine. The wp-content folder has 775 permissions, and I created a /uploads folder ...