Wordpress, cannot install new theme

I have installed the Wordpress appliance and everthing is working fine accept for when I login into wordpress to upload a new theme I get the following error:

"The uploaded file could not be moved to /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/03. "

Any ideas what could be causing this, as the rest of the wordpress front end seems to work fine

Its only when i click on Theme under Appearence it suddenly takes ages to load (about two minutes)

and then when I upload the new theme after about 3 minute the error presents itself.

I have checked the user rights in the /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/03 directory and it all seems to be okay

Replies (4)

yes, I have double checked

Reply 1 2012-03-21

yes, I have double checked that. I am totally confused

I was going to suggest checking permissions...

Reply 2 2012-03-21

But sounds like you checked that... Just to be clear - it's owned by www-data:www-data? And has permissions set to 755?

Google says:

Reply 3 2012-03-22

The uploaded file could not be moved to /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/

...means that for your first content upload, such as images to place in a post or page, you may need to change permissions on /wp-content to 0777 temporarily to allow wordpress to create the uploads folder. After that you should be able to change it back to 0755.

And something else:

Switching off organise my uploads, and manually creating wp-content/uploads and setting just this folder to 777 has worked for me.

And finally - a php.ini tweak:

http://www.webtechquery.com/index.php/2011/11/wordpress-the-uploaded-fil...

Not sure if any of thst will work for you? Seems like a pretty common WP problem over the last few years but also may have different causes...?

Be great if you can post back with what if anythung works.

If/when you chmod, don't forget to use the '-R' (recursive) switch.

It may be easier to just upload the theme direct to your server via SFTP?

How large is the file you are

Reply 4 2012-03-26

How large is the file you are trying to upload? maybe you need to increase the limit in the php.ini file.