Unpacking the update... Could not create directory. Wordpress

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BigTech picture BigTech · Dec 3, 2013 · Viewed 43.1k times · Source

When I instal nextgen-gallery plugins. This error message appears 

Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nextgen-gallery.zip…

Unpacking the update…

Could not create directory.

How can I fix this problem ?

Answer

skrilled picture skrilled · Dec 3, 2013

This is a permissions issue. Ensure the directory is writable by apache. Plugins are unpacked into the wp-content/plugins directory, so I would first attempt writing to the directory as apache:

sudo -u apache touch /path/to/wp-content/plugins/test.txt

Set permissions accordingly to correct the issue. You can read about permissions here: https://www.pluralsight.com/blog/it-ops/linux-file-permissions

You can read about the correct file permission scheme for Wordpress here: https://wordpress.org/support/article/changing-file-permissions/

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