Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in drupal_mkdir()

By DarkDan on 26 May 2011 at 13:08 UTC

Gang,

I apologize, but I have diligently read every post and tried everything.

My Drupal install is stating:

File system Not writable
The directory /hermes/web09c/b1053/as.darkdan/tempdir does not exist. You may need to set the correct directory at the file system settings page or change the current directory's permissions so that it is writable.

When I go to the file system settings page,

* Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in drupal_mkdir() (line 2244 of /hermes/web12c/b1053/as.darkdan/includes/file.inc).
* The directory /hermes/web09c/b1053/as.darkdan/tempdir does not exist and could not be created.

But the crazy thing is that the actual form field says:
/hermes/web09c/b1053/as.darkdan/tempdir which appears to be different than my install directory. I have tried creating a file in both
/hermes/web09c/b1053/as.darkdan/tempdir
/hermes/web12c/b1053/as.darkdan/tempdir

When I use /hermes/web12c/ it actually creates the folder on my server, but then reports:
* The directory /hermes/web09c/b1053/as.darkdan/tempdir does not exist and could not be created.

Whomever can solve this brainteaser gets the first beer on me!

Daniel

Comments

What are the permissions of those folders?

VanD commented 30 May 2011 at 21:03

Make sure those folders are writable by the server.

Try 777 first, and then work your way down.

- Craig Vanderlinden @cvanderlinden

I am having the same

giraffepanda commented 7 September 2011 at 20:17

I am having the same issue.

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in drupal_mkdir() (line 2293 of /hermes/web11c/b337/moo.*****/includes/file.inc)

The directory /hermes/web06b/b337/moo.******/tempdir does not exist and could not be created.

My particular issue seems to have popped up since updating. I would love to know if you were able to solve this Daniel and if so, how. With respect to permissions, I made sure that tempdir did indeed have 777 permissions.

Same Issue Here

erin814 commented 28 September 2011 at 00:27

Was this ever resolved? I just upgraded and am now having this issue. I've also tried setting the folder permissions to 777 and still no luck. I get the following error.

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in drupal_mkdir() (line 2293 ****/includes/file.inc).
The directory ****/tempdir does not exist and could not be created.

I'm wondering if this is a host server specific issue? I recently upgraded another drupal site on a different host server with no issues. I will try contacting customer support and see if they can help me...

Yup, here to.

OWast

Ljusvattnet, Burträsk, Sweden

commented 10 November 2011 at 09:00

This happens to me as well, when installing Drupal 7.9 on a local ubuntu/apache server. I've tried modifying www-data's access to files/ directory.

I've got nothing. I think the form har gone buggy.

7.9 seems b0rked for me too...

lexbi commented 12 November 2011 at 17:14

I'm on 7.9 and have the same problem :[

Tried the full server path which just says it can't create the directory that already god damn exists with a chmod of 777...

Tried the web path of just sites/all/default/tmp which then gives me the following error when installing a module:
Unable to create directory 'temporary://..."

Pff, was working just yesterday when I installed boost, grr.

Re: 7.9 seems b0rked for me too...

leeotzu commented 13 November 2011 at 19:23

Hi Joe,

I would recommend to first try chmod -R 0777 sites folder of your drupal installation directory. The target directory may differ in case the paths are altered in the admin/config/media/file-system form.

Thanks for the tip, but it

OWast

Ljusvattnet, Burträsk, Sweden

commented 14 November 2011 at 14:35

Thanks for the tip, but it didn't make any difference for me.

You just need to change the

nikky171091 commented 7 September 2015 at 12:13

You just need to change the file system path and provide the chmod -R 777 permission

Warning in 7.12

charcotrill commented 16 February 2012 at 21:13

I was having the same issue with 7.12 with setting my tmp, public file, and private file directories. Problem was fixed by altering the paths given in the form at admin/config/media/file-system from

/home/***/***/public_html/tmp
and
/home/***/***/public_html/sites/default/files

/tmp
and
sites/default/files.

Hope this helps the next person who wanders by.

Finally found a fix!

snickwit commented 10 May 2012 at 03:36

I finally found the issue was tied to the settings.php file. There's a section under Variable Overrides, see below:

"/**
* Variable overrides:
*
* To override specific entries in the 'variable' table for this site,
* set them here. You usually don't need to use this feature. This is
* useful in a configuration file for a vhost or directory, rather than
* the default settings.php. Any configuration setting from the 'variable'
* table can be given a new value. Note that any values you provide in
* these variable overrides will not be modifiable from the Drupal
* administration interface.
*
* The following overrides are examples:
* - site_name: Defines the site's name.
* - theme_default: Defines the default theme for this site.
* - anonymous: Defines the human-readable name of anonymous users.
* Remove the leading hash signs to enable.
*/
# $conf['site_name'] = 'My Drupal site';
# $conf['theme_default'] = 'garland';
# $conf['anonymous'] = 'Visitor';
$conf['file_temporary_path'] = '/home1/develop9/public_html/domainname/new/tempdir';

Once I commented out the line item below:
# $conf['file_temporary_path'] = '/home1/develop9/public_html/domainname/new/tempdir';
I could then set the temp folder path to "/tmp" like my other sites. I think this is a hard-coded default and this is why I was unable to successfully change the temp folder directory regardless of what I did because it was always overriding it.

I found that I didn't have

Nick Fox commented 30 October 2012 at 13:57

I found that I didn't have this line in my settings file.
$conf['file_temporary_path'] = '/home1/develop9/public_html/domainname/new/tempdir';
Adding it resolved my problem.

I had this problem too, after

kwinz commented 13 May 2012 at 23:35

I had this problem too, after doing a minor version update. None of the suggestions here worked. I finally fixed it by entering a new, nonexistant directory name for the temp directory in the file systems settings page. It created the new temp directory and the problem went away.