Comments on: Fixing “Missing a temporary folder” error on Wordpress 2.7 uploader

By: Dwight Jack

Dwight Jack — Sat, 29 May 2010 15:49:21 +0000

Well that problem seemed to be mostly related to WP 2.7. Since it’s a server-side problem, do you have any additional info about your system?

By: matt

matt — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:57:39 +0000

no, it`s not
I`m using WordPress 2.9.2. and it`s not working this way on I.E, Mozilla

By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:35:39 +0000

I added the first few lines to my .htaccess, so this is what I ended up with.

SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:34:46 +0000

I added the first few lines to my .htaccess, so this is what I ended up with.

SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

And it started working

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:00:46 +0000

I got the same error with my WP-powered blog (2.7V) and this is how I fixed mine: go to your dashboard:
SETTINGS–> Miscellaneous
Store uploads in this folder
DELETE the word “directory”,
thus, settings will be
default. So it will look like
this [wp-content/uploads].
Before, it looks like this;
[directory/wp-content/uploads], just delete directory/. IT WORKS!

By: Lewis

Lewis — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:56:25 +0000

Thanks guys. An upgrade to php 5 fixed my problem too.

By: rosie

rosie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:04:23 +0000

I also had this issue. I checked my web hosting and I was running with php version 4. The upgraded wordpress recommended version php 4.2 and above. Once I had moved to version php 5 this problem was resolved.

By: Neill Jones

Neill Jones — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:33:42 +0000

Just a small point …

I changed the temp directory to /tmp which is available on some (if not all??) linux systems. So long as Apache has rw access to it it should work too. That way you don’t have to have a temporary directory added to your home directory.

Cheers

Neill

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By: Jestin

Jestin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:23:28 +0000

Thks dud….
it help and o was able to rectify my trouble!

Thank U again