CreateDirectory - Object Storage Service - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

You can call this operation to create a directory. This operation is applicable only to buckets that have the hierarchical namespace feature enabled.

Usage notes

To create a directory, you must have the PutObject permission.
When you create a directory, OSS returns 200 OK if the directory you want to create has the same name as an existing directory and you have the permissions to access the existing directory. However, OSS does not perform creation operations.
When you create a directory, data cannot be imported to the directory. The Content-Length value of the directory can be set only to 0.
The Content-Type value of the directory can be set only to application/x-directory, which cannot be modified.
When you create a directory, the absolute path of the directory cannot contain consecutive forward slashes (/).

Request structure

POST /objectName?x-oss-dir HTTP/1.1
Host: BucketName.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com
Date: GMT Date
Authorization: SignatureValue

Request headers

Header

Type

Required

Description

Authorization

String

Specifies that the request is authorized. For more information, see RFC 2616.

The Authorization header is required in most cases. However, if you use a signed URL in a request, this header is not required. For more information, see Generate a signed URL.

Default value: null

This API operation must also include common request headers such as Host and Date. For more information about common request headers, see Common request headers.

Response headers

The response headers involved in this API operation contain only common response headers. For more information, see Common response headers.

Examples

Sample requests

POST /desktop/oss?x-oss-dir HTTP/1.1
Host: oss-example.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 05:21:12 GMT
Authorization: OSS qn6q**************:77Dv****************

Sample success responses

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-oss-request-id: 559CC9BDC755F95A64485981
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 05:21:12 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 06:07:48 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive
Server: AliyunOSS

SDK

OSS SDK for Java: Create directories

Error code

Error code

HTTP status code

Description

AccessDenied

403

Possible causes:

When you create a directory, you do not have permissions to access the specified bucket.
When you create a directory, the directory you want to create has the same name as an existing directory, but you do not have the permissions to access the existing directory.

FileAlreadyExists

409

The error message returned because an existing object at the same directory level has the same name. For example: The desktop directory contains an object named osstest. You cannot create a directory named osstest in the desktop directory.