May 182010
 

I was having a problem with WordPress where I could not upload any documents to my website via posting and I could not activate Akismet or change Appearance or Themes. Basically, I could not write to the backend even though my MySql account had full privileges in the database. I got the following error message when I tried to enter my Akismet key:

Akismet The key you entered could not be verified because a connection to akismet.com could not be established. Please check your server configuration.

The problem was that Apache did not have read/write access to the blog website.

The solution was to change the owner of the blog from root to apache the restart the web service.

sudo chown -R apache:root /var/www/html/blog/

sudo service httpd restart

Once I did this my errors went away.