I am hosting piwigo on my own CentOS6 Server. It is a vm installation and the server is working like a charm.

After successfully installing piwigo everything worked really well, but I didn't want my virtual machine file to grow in size larger than 50GB so I decided to move the upload folder to my 1TB USB drive mounted in /media.

After reading several topics on this forum I decided to use a symlink (upload) to that folder on the USB drive piwigo/upload.

I created the symlink with ssh and it seems to work properly. When I dubbleclick on the symlink it brings me directly to the /media/usbdrive/piwigo/upload/2014

But when I want to add one or several photos I get the following error:

[prepare_directory] cannot create directory "

This is in my opinion a permission issue. These are the permissions of the folder sequence:

/media     777

/usbdrive    700

/piwigo     700

/upload    700

/2014     700

/25     (today folder) is the one that cannot be created I assume


I have tried with FileZilla and SFTP port 22 as root user to modify the permission settings but that didn't work unfortunately..

Help is very welcome ;-)