An Update to WordPress core broke media upload on all my sites. The update was on 2019-10-14, but problems arised now, when november begun.
Setup
We use a special directory structure which is like this:
- wp/
- uploads/
- wp-content/
- index.html
- wp-config.php
With this layout it’s possible for us to have the different parts in different places: wp is a clean, unmodified WordPress checkout, uploads contains all the media files and wp-content contains the code for the website.
With setting constants WP_SITEURL, WP_CONTENT_DIR, WP_CONTENT_URL, WP_PLUGIN_DIR and WP_PLUGIN_URL along with UPLOADs this worked fine. However:
define(‚UPLOADS‘,‘../uploads‘);
was needed, because _wp_upload_dir() calculates the uploads-directory by appending UPLOADS to ABSURL – and ABSURL is in my wp-folder.
Problem
Recent Changes in WordPress Core forbid creating directories with „../“ in their path. Uploading files works, but creation of the „2019/11/“-folder fails.
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/48316
https://foliovision.com/2019/11/wordpress-unable-to-create-directory