This is a little long winded, so bear with me:
I'm experienceing an image upload issue, and its got to do with the permissions setup my server admin put on my server. Tried the fixes described in the forums
I had this experience before with wordpress gallery plugins and it relates to the creation of new subdirectories wordpress doesn't have permission to create.
Some history
A couple of months back, there was some bad virus mojo involving php, plesk and a ton of self hosted sites. As a result my admin locked things down such that apache/php runs in an unusual user space relative to plesk, which sets the file/group permissions for vhosts...
what this boils down to: I have to manually create any folders thru plesk and chmod them 777. Attempts to create new folders thru any php process gets denied. Also, depending on how file upload works, certian operations (like insecure ftp) are not allowed.
So....
when doing file upload, are any temporary directories created, and are any permanent directories created? if so, is there a naming convention I can use to prevent a folder creation issue from stopping upload.
Thx
Jeremy