Missing wysiwyg folder in magento

Question

When I try to upload some images on CMS > Pages in wysiwyg editor, I get an error:

The directory is not writable by server.

I have already explored this error caused because of media/wysiwyg folder is missing. If I create this folder all will be fine.

But I wonder why this folder is missing after Magento installation. Can someone explain?

Answer 1

Whenever you get Images not Uploading. Destination folder not writable, folder is not writable or does not exists or either anything similar. Just follow the check-list below:

• Permissions : Check if the server has rights to write into var and media folders i.e write permissions.
• Missing folders : In the folder media, take a look if media/catalog, media/wysiwyg and media/images are there (or even any other folder you’ve set up to upload your files to). If yes, if the server has the permissions to write on them.
• Var/cache : Get yourself sure you run one $ rm -rf var/cache/* and got rid of everything inside this folder.
• Cache Management : Clean the blocks in System > Cache Management.