Solution for “Missing a temporary folder” Problem in Wordpress

Recently i got this (Missing a temporary folder) weird problem in media uploader of wordpress 2.7.1 after 3 weeks of installation in Linux Server with Cpanel Hosting. This happens to my all wordpress blogs of 2.7.1 version. So i googled for 2 days to find the solution.

Here is the solution i got from Dwightjack.

You need to edit php.ini located in etc/ folder, uncommenting the line upload_tmp_dir (by deleting the semi-colon “;”) and pointing the variable to a folder using an absolute path. In Linux possible steps are:

open a terminal

create a temporary folder for all apache tasks in your user folder and grant all right to all users:

mkdir wwwtmp && chmod 0777 wwwtmp

edit php.ini with your text editor and set the temporary folder (you must switch to root user)

su
vim /opt/lampp/etc/php.ini
upload_tmp_dir = /home/my_user/wwwtmp/

Remeber to remove preceding “;”

save the file (in vim type :wq an press enter) and restart xampp

/opt/lampp/./lampp restart

It will work if everything followed correctly.After completion login & log out repeatedly for a couple of times.

This is completely related to server configuration.so this is not so easy for a regular users using shared hosting lacks full control over server configuration.My blog also in shared servers.But you may ask your support to do this.My support did this for me.

Credit & Special thanks to Dwight Jack.

Tags: Missing a temporary folder, Wordpress, Wordpress Problems

Category: Troubleshooting