Comments on: Unable to Locate WordPress Content Directory wp-content

By: Klaus Gebhardt

Klaus Gebhardt — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:49:45 +0000

Hi Richard,

I had the same problem running WP 3.2.1 today. I am part of a hosting company, and the problem occurred on a Linux server running Plesk. We were unable to determine anything we could do on the server side to correct it. We do not have this issue on our non-Plesk boxes.

Your fix worked perfectly.

Thank you VERY much!

By: Richard Havelock

Richard Havelock — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:27:33 +0000

Hi Nicholas,

The above fix works for earlier versions of WordPress but i doesn’t work for versions 3.0+. I haven’t been able to find a fix that applies to the latest versions of WordPress. The problem is with Byethost and where the root folder is (I haven’t looked at this in a while and my memory is a bit hazey).

Sorry I couldn’t be much more help, I have had a couple of friends upgrade to shared hosting with Byethost and they haven’t given it great reviews (one said the free hosting was better). If you’re looking for something decent, cheap(ish) and works with WordPress, I would suggest Fat Cow, they’re alright.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:00:11 +0000

Hi guys.

I have a kind of a problem with byethost free and wordpress in addon domain configuration. If I install wordpress on sub folder mydomain.com on bayethost and try to get ftp working from the back end of wordpress I get an error. Byethost free gives only one pre configured ftp account and that connects to root htdocks, not to my subdomain. How to fix that. I can not add any content through wordpress back end :S Only with ftp client, manually. That sucks! Is there a workaround, or its pay sucker cenario?

Tnx.

By: Web Developer

Web Developer — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:46:40 +0000

Hi Matt,

Tina never got back to me but I will be happy to pick up the cause again for you.

I have just had a quick check, I think the work-around mentioned in my post doesn’t work for WordPress version 3.0+ (haven’t tested this properly). Will have a look tonight and will try to find an answer.

Like your domain name by the way: yeebaa.com

By: Matt | Yeebaa

Matt | Yeebaa — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:09:04 +0000

Hi Richard,
I’m having the same problem as you did with WordPress and byethost.com the only difference I can see is that I’ve downloaded WP 3.0.5
I moved DNS of my domain name to byethost.com and then filezilla’d the unzipped folder. I had changed the original file to include the ftp info and when that didn’t work I searched more and found your post. I tagged your code onto the end as you explained, but still no luck. Did you manage to help Tina who commented earlier?
Many thanks in advance,
Matt

By: Web development canada

Web development canada — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:55:26 +0000

Its happened with me too, Its actually byte host’s problem they have different hosting structure then others, instead of public_html they use htdocs folder, so it is root cause for this.