xmlrpc.php 500 Internal Server Error on image upload

  • Using Windows Live Writer and cannot upload since upgrade to 2.6.1

    “The server reported an error with the following URL:

    https://www.narrativedisorder.com/xmlrpc.php

    500 Internal Server Error”

    Have hunted forums and tried various things including turning off all plugins, reasserting permalinks and miscellaneous settings, re-overwriting wp-admin and wp-includes (not overwrite if new) and anything else I could find while hunting forums for last several hours ??

    Please help.

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  • Thread Starter dbeithr

    (@dbeithr)

    Hmm it seems the first image in my posts have been uploading but no further ones, I also cannot find the “”Browser Uploader” link instead to turn off the Flash Uploader” I wonder if somehow I have only the non-flash uploader working since upgrade since only one image is being uploaded before the 500 error? Posts without images or with images pre-hosted on the same site or elsewhere post fine.

    Does the web server have any thing in the error logs?

    Thread Starter dbeithr

    (@dbeithr)

    No idea what that means sorry – have never needed to know previously ?? Really regretting “up”grading first time the upgrade worked seamlessly and this happens.

    Lots of people are having the same problems and my install is standard.

    Thread Starter dbeithr

    (@dbeithr)

    Okay did my own ill-educated, uninformed tinkering and seem to have solved the problem. I won’t post my fix because frankly I only half-know what I did and will most likely have issues later but for now it’s working well enough to do me till I find an app which I can pay for to get some support when stuff like this happens. I nearly did that during the nightmare that was upgrading to 2.5 but seeing the lack of response here to this problem which so many people have had (a sticky 5 mths ago for goodness sake) has finally tipped me.

    I asked for more detail on the server side about this and you never replied.

    When a server return a 500 error it usually means it got the response, but there was an error trying to process it. Without more details about what that error is it’s hard to pin down what went wrong.

    I was having the same problem. I got an email from my host tech support in blazing time. It seems this is a problem with most services defaulting to PHP 4.

    The recommendation was to use the .htaccess file to force the server to run PHP 5 when reading and accessing the pages. Two lines of code need to be added.

    AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

    This fixed my problem. Hopefully others who are having this problem will be helped as well.

    I found a simple workaround. Configure Windows Live Writer to use FTP instead of XMLRPC for image uploads.

    In WLW, do Weblog > Edit Weblog Settings… > Images > Upload images to an FTP server > Configure FTP. You’ll have to figure out the path and URL to where your images for your post get uploaded. For me, by way of example, it’s:

    Folder: /www/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/
    URL: https://newBBie.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/

    Kelly Carter
    https://newBBie.com (Help for new owners of BlackBerry Pearl, Curve, Bold.)

    I was getting the 500 Internal Server Error due to the data type of the post_parent column in the wp_posts table. Here are the details and how I fixed it:

    https://ardentdev.com/fix-for-wordpress-xmlrpc-500-internal-server-error/

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