I experienced this error while preparing an AWS ec2 Bitnami micro-instance configured for WordPress. This approach requires the command-line, so please launch a terminal-session and begin via SSH into the deployed production.
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cd
into the application document-root:/home/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs:
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Execute the below command to identify the Apache web-server:
ps aux | egrep '(apache|httpd)'
Revealing
daemon
in this case, as captured within the terminal-output screenshot below: -
Ultimately, the below-command remediated the error; users should now have the ability to successfully media-upload content via the WordPress Content Management system/admin-panel:
sudo chown -R daemon:daemon wp-content
I recommend the following dox for guidance regarding the Linux-commands referenced herein: