can’t upload images

  • I am new to Word Press.

    I want to add images to my posts using the upload function, but the uploader is giving me a very generic error message after the bar reaches the right side:

    Crunching…

    An error ocurred in the upload. Please try again later.

    But later, the same error.

    Here’s what I have checked:
    -folders wp-content and uploads have 777 permissions.
    -path to upload folder in misellaneous doesn’t start with “/”, it’s the default “wp-content/uploads”
    -I even tried adding a full URL path to files, but I get the same.

    Also… I have SlideShowPro Director (it’s PHP) installed in my host, and I can upload pictures and even heavy flash movies with it no problem, so it seems that PHP in my host is able to upload anything.

    Please, please help! so far I like WordPress and I don’t want to try another blogger, but me being a photographer, Images are the most important thing in my blog entries.

    Thanks in advance

    Joel

    Forgot to mention, I have WP 2.5

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  • Not new to WP, but new to 2.5.

    Running a fresh install of WP 2.5, with only Askimet running.

    Same problem here.
    Yesterday the media uploading was working fine with the first two uploads, after that….

    – not possible to upload any pictures (with FF) anymore: it gives a http-error and if I want to try later.
    – Uploaded 1 picture with IE, after that the same problem.
    – Allthough there are 3 pictures, the gallery says (0)
    – The possibility to add a gallery in the post is gone….?
    – Now IE gives a failure and the Mediathing doesn’t respond at all…?

    The mediathing looked very nice, especially for non-techs, but it has its bugs, I think…

    If anyone has a solution…

    Thanks,
    Peter

    Same problem here too.
    I upload the images, they appear in my gallery, but when I press the Insert button the pop-up is all white and nothing happens.

    Checked the sticky above. There was no solution for me there.

    Could it be the issue highlighted in this thread that’s happening with you?

    @mojorob:

    I think not. Pictures I tried to upload were 450x450pxs, 50kb, so crunching and CPU problems…

    This is what solved my problems (atleast those with WP 2.5)

    For me, I cannot upload, I get the same HTTP error, and the “An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later” message. My “Gallery” stays at 0, and there is no indication anything uploaded.

    My Flash is the latest version, 9, I upgraded to it.

    This is incredibly frustrating.

    I’ve bounced around the forums for an hour at work trying to solve this, with no success. Even worse, I can’t see where in 2.5 we are able to upload non-media files, like documents, .pdfs, .ppts, etc. Has anyone figured out how to do that?

    – Randy

    Thread Starter joruiz

    (@joruiz)

    This solved my problem, the .htacces file:

    1) htacces in website-root should contain:

    <IfModule mod_security.c>
    SecFilterEngine Off
    SecFilterScanPOST Off
    </IfModule>

    2) chmod settings for uploads folder set at: 755

    thanks

    I had a similar problem with my blog. Was fine until I upgraded to 2.5.
    If you have exhausted all other avenues, I would contact your host. My host (Hostgator) was blocking the upload of images for security. I had to tell them the location of all of my blogs so that they could remove the security feature. This worked perfectly.

    When I was getting the problem I was just getting “http error”, but I know some people got “crunching” instead.

    It seems that the server was logging this message: mod_security: Access denied with code 403. Pattern match “^Shockwave Flash” at HEADER(“USER-AGENT”) [id “***MY ID”][rev “1”] [msg “SpamBot UA”] [severity “CRITICAL”] [hostname “***MY-DOMAIN***”] [uri “/testing/blog/wp-admin/async-upload.php”]

    Hope this helps you guys. I spent hours trying sugegsted fixes. I never would have guessed that it was a security issue with my host. After contacting them it was fixed within the hour.
    At first they argued that it was 3rd party software, but I told them that I had a test blog and I also had blogs on 2 servers and it was the same on all of them. They referred me to their higher level support and they fixed it within an hour.

    Let me know the outcome. [email protected]

    Joel et. al.,

    I am having more problems with the latest version of Word Press. Firefox in particular does not want to accept images. I am on a Mac so I go to Safari and that seems to work.

    There seems to be many more bugs with Version 2.5.1 than the older version of Word Press.

    Lowell

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