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Safinaz Yusof
October 23rd, 2010, 03:23 PM
Hey there,

Appreciate if any of you could assist me in handling the below issue :-

I'm having difficulties in installing/upgrading my WordPress version and theme. The error note as below ..

A . Installing/Upgrading
Update WordPress
Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0.1.zip…

Unpacking the update…

Could not create directory.: /public_html

Installation Failed


B. Installing Theme

Installing Theme: WP-Creativix 1.5.5
Downloading install package from http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/wp-creativix.1.5.5.zip…

Unpacking the package…

Could not create directory. /public_html

Pls help.Thanks !

mörgæs
October 24th, 2010, 12:04 PM
Hi, welcome to the forum.

It sounds like you do not have enough rights for creating /public_html (I assume that you are creating this in /var). Does it work if you use sudo?