One of the common questions that come up during IT strategy discussions is around open source alternatives that businesses should keep an eye on, if not actively considering a migration to. This article examines some of the common open source alternatives that I have found most clients have been happy with in their production environment. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of open source alternatives. But, some of the top choices in selected categories that can get you started.

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Finally, wordpress is installed and almost all plug-ins are up. Trying to post an image threw up a cryptic error message

“The uploaded file could not be moved to…”

Looks like the default installation path for “Store uploads in this folder” is set as “"wp-content". Here’s what is need to fix this:

• Change the value from  “"wp-content" to “wp-content/upLoads"
• Create a directory called "upLoads" under the directory “wp-content". Note that the folder names are case sensitive.
• Assign World  ‘Read/Write/Execute’ permission (i.e: 0×777) for the new directory. 0×666 (Just Read/Write) doesn’t seem to cut it.

That should do it.