SOLVED - Directory upload path error "This path is either invalid or not writable"
How Do I?
Hi all,
Newbie of the newbies here, only taken a few coding classes ever, out of necessity have taken on some basic dev responsibilities at my work.
This site has a page of photo albums for various events. All others are working fine except the one I have just tried to add. Albums are separated into directories in File, so I went to “Create Upload Directory” and followed the naming conventions and options chosen for previous directories, but I’m running into an issue with the most important part, the upload path.
In other album directories:
Upload directory is {base_url}/images/uploads/example_2017/
Upload path is {base_path}/html/images/uploads/example_2017/
But when I try to do that with /example_2022/ in both directory and path, I get the title error for the path “This path is either invalid or not writable.”
Logic would tell me it’s because it can’t self-reference its own directory, because the error stays if I try /example_2025/ and goes away if I put in /example_2017/ which exists on the server, buuut as shown above, every other directory of this type IS self-referential.
Someone tell me what stupid thing I’m overlooking or thing I didn’t even know existed I need to check to make this work.
Thanks!
Did you create the new folder on your server?
I was afraid that was the issue - I don’t actually have server access. I was finally able to get in touch with the guy that does and he should be getting this squared away. Thank you for responding though!
In my opinion the problem you are facing may be related to access to the upload folder or path configuration in your system. Try checking Access Permissions to see if the example_2022 folder or any other similar folder has write permissions for the web server. Because typically the web server needs write permissions to be able to create and store uploaded files. If not, please refer to https://www.google.com/ for instructions.