Thread:Project:Support desk/Trouble uploading after installation/reply (9)

My french is rusty, but I think that I agree with you.

Setting 777 permissions is really a bad idea.

On my system, I had this problem too. I got here by googling the error message.

I fixed the problem by setting the image directory's owner to apache. And since nothing but a readme was in that directory, I didn't even need a recursive chown. chown apache. /var/www/mediawiki119/images That was the path on my CentOS 6.3 system.

I wonder if there is an even less crude solution.

There is. Read Manual:Configuring file uploads