So you went as far as chmod’ing your entire folder structure to 777 (very unsafe), you’ve hacked wp\/wp-admin\/includes\/file.php<\/p>\n
to print out exactly what directory it cannot create and what user is trying to create the folder, everything is correct, yet it won’t create the fucking folder?<\/strong><\/p>\n Go to \/etc\/vsftpd.con and make sure that you have this setting uncommented:<\/p>\n write_enable=YES<\/p>\n restart your vsftpd (sudo service vsftpd restart) and try upgrading again, you’ll want to hit that ‘Donate Bitcoin’ button if I saved your ass today.<\/p>\n Cheers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So you went as far as chmod’ing your entire folder structure to 777 (very unsafe), you’ve hacked wp\/wp-admin\/includes\/file.php return new WP_Error( ‘mkdir_failed_ziparchive’, __( get_current_user() . ‘ Could not create directory. (‘.$_dir.’)’ )… to print out exactly what directory it cannot create and what user is trying to create the folder, everything is correct, yet it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,1],"tags":[1437,959,1000,1369,1117],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeklife","category-uncategorized","tag-code","tag-sysadmin","tag-tips","tag-troubleshooting","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-Q2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2219,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/your-profile-can-not-be-used-because-it-is-from-a-newer-version-of-google-chrome\/","url_meta":{"origin":3226,"position":0},"title":"Your profile can not be used because it is from a newer version of Google Chrome","author":"gubatron","date":"May 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Getting this error every time you start Chrome? 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' Could not create directory. ('.$_dir.')' )...<\/code><\/p>\nthe issue might be your vsftpd configuration!<\/h2>\n