Question

I’m on the process of moving my Drupal 7 website from development to production. Now I can’t change my site’s temporary directory.

Every time I try to change the path it gives me an error that it can’t execute mkdir() function.

I also tried to change it using devel module variable editor, it gave me a successful message but the value stayed the same. (The old value)

I also removed the variable from the variable table, and it stayed the same.

I really don’t know what to do here!

Any ideas ?!!!

Answer 1

While the obvious culprit would be permissions, there are other gotchas, such as trying to set it to /tmp and not tmp. /tmp is owned by your server OS. Use tmp without the leading slash for the Drupal directory inside your files folder.