[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by csavern

i try to setup the upload_dir and this is what i get
The following setting(s) are invalid
upload_dir : /upload_dir
Cannot access/create directory /upload_dir [/home/mysite/public_html/upload_dir
i have tried every way i know how to and still cant get it
could some one tell me what i am doing wrong

two possibilities to check - read/write permissions and the php setting open_basedir.

Take a look at your LDM admin pages, at the left hand column, where you will find a number of environmental variables. One of these is open_basedir. If this is set, then you can only create/access directories that start with a string that matches one of the parts of that setting.

In other words, if open_basedir is unset or looks something like the start of /home/mysite/public_html, then this is not the problem.

Another possibility is that you do not have write access to /home/mysite/public_html, so /upload_dir cannot be created. In this case, you will need to create the /home/mysite/public_html/upload_dir directory by hand, e.g. using your FTP client, and give it full read/write permissions.