As part of my flirtation with cpanel yesterday, I created a new folder called 2009 in which to house this year’s photos. Now I’m not entirely sold on all this cpanel business – it seems like rather a pfaff – so when I wanted to upload a photo of myself right now, I decided to be lazy and use the wordpress uploading button instead.

I selected the photo I wanted to use and clicked okay. My computer tried very hard to upload it, it really did, but in the end it failed and spat out an error message at me, saying that the server was unable to write to the parent directory

Initially I found this error message confusing and distressing. And then, suddenly in a flash, it came to me! When I’d created the folder, I’d not thought to change the default permissions from 755 to 777. I don’t know how I can have been so silly… :ninja:

I have just logged into my blog and been instructed that I need to upgrade my WordPress to version 2.7. I don’t know what anyone else thinks, but it feels to me that for the past few weeks, every time I’ve logged into WordPress to make a post, I’ve been asked to upgrade. I’ve literally only just upgraded to WordPress 2.6.5, which as far as I could see had no discernible (or discernable??) advantages over WordPress 2.6. Sometimes I wonder whether I ought to go to the trouble of upgrading at all, but then Babel has installed a nifty little plugin which does most of the work for me, and people who know about computers have given me the impression that these upgrades are more important than I will ever understand. Having had all those issues with 3ix, I don’t want to slack off on upgrades and leave myself open to some other sort of security problems down the line. (more…)