Cannot Access Uploads Directory

[banpie]

I use deploybot to do the automatic serve setup, after I login into my live wordpress and activate the sync db plugin, I get the error " We require write permissions to the standard WordPress uploads directory. Without this permission exports are unavailable. Please grant 755 permissions on the following directory:/home/wwwroot/default/content/uploads", Even I use ftp to grant 777 to the uploads folder in the content, it still does not work.

[db306]

Bit late to the party but you need to create a folder named "shared" in your repo at the same level as /content and /wp folders. Once you've done that, create a folder named content inside and another inside on content named uploads. That's it folks.

[markjaquith]

Right, so the proper way to do this is with a symlink. So your deploy process should do:

ln -s /some/location/for/your/shared shared (from the docroot). This will create a "symlink" from shared to /some/location/for/your/shared — which is where you should create an uploads directory. Then every time you deploy, the deployment will point shared to the real location, and the symlink inside content/uploads/ will point to that via a double symlinking.