http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: 2.7 Image Upload Not Working en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:58:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-1275020 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:58:44 +0000 jrdanielco 1275020@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I have been using 2.7 for awhile and had no problems with image uploads until today (Nov 8, 2009) After all the great suggestions provide here the only thing that worked was disabling my S3 plugin. Never used it anyway.</p> <p>Keep up the great work. I am avoiding 2.8 even though it is supposed to be bullet proof. Yeah, sure. And I am a internet millionaire.</p> <p>Rick </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-1154485 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:07:08 +0000 salaknib 1154485@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>@euphonywho</p> <p>Changing the folder to wp-contents/images worked!!! thank you! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-1068145 Fri, 08 May 2009 03:01:02 +0000 flipstips 1068145@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hey eibhlin,</p> <p>Thank you for solving my problem with the image issue. I read your instructions and that helped me! Http://www.flipstips.com </p> <p>First, I had to fix the problems created by rolling back to 2.6.5.</p> <p>2.6.5 files had changed the database Uploads path to the full path (myusername/root/domainname.com/wp-content/uploads/...) so I had to go into pHpMyAdmin and change it back to /wp-content/uploads in the Options section.</p> <p>My existing images reappeared on my website. Whew!</p> <p>But, retrying 2.7, I was still reaching the error message when I tried to upload new images through WordPress.</p> <p>An overnight conversation with tech support ensued, and they found the problem.</p> <p>In my case, the new (2.7) wp-content/uploads folder had automatically uploaded with CHMOD 777. Apparently, my hosting service (Hostgator) won't allow 777, only 755.</p> <p>So, switching all folders back to CHMOD 755 solved the problem. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-1051752 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:56:31 +0000 dienast 1051752@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Wat I did was changing the attributes of de wp-content folder tot 777 and I noticed that the 'uploads' folder was missing, strangely enough. So I created one and it works now. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-1043334 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:58:55 +0000 gso2 1043334@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>"Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/2009/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server?" </p> <p>I received the same message. I assigned 777 to the /wp-content/uploads folder and every thing was OK.<br /> I am using only following plugins: -<br /> 1. Lightbox plus 2. NospamNX 3. WP mail SMTP 4. WP super cache</p> <p>Good luck! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-1038181 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:42:39 +0000 shavityoav 1038181@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi,<br /> I found the solution to this problem after very long (very very) time.<br /> It's so simple, I'm shame to explain:<br /> You have to check if the URL for the installation do not have any<br /> CAPITAL letters.<br /> * You can change this URL at the settings panel</p> <p>I had! When i change it to be without any CAPITALS it works</p> <p>Whoopee<br /> Hope this is also your bug </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-1026442 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:12:42 +0000 tstynes 1026442@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>When I try to upload photos on WordPress 2.7.1, I get an error message <strong>"Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/2009/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server?"</strong> The directory already exists and the write permissions have not be altered. HELP!! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-1021120 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:26:28 +0000 euphonywho 1021120@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I installed Wordpress a few days ago, and was running into the dead image (red X's) problem that others seem to be sharing. I tried the suggestion about, and that didn't work for, still saying "Cannot move file to .../wp-content/uploads". However if you:</p> <p>1. Using an FTP client, or browsing your site through a web-based control panel, create a folder in the root directory for your uploads. Mine is <code>images</code>. Make sure the permissions are set to 777 (I haven't tested with any other, because I'm too tired to right now).</p> <p>2. Go to Settings/Misc, and change the the "Store uploads in this folder" from <code>wp-content/uploads</code> to that folder. All you have to do is type in the name of the folder. So my entry looks like <code>images</code>.</p> <p>Test it out and see if it works. This worked for me and seems like a straight-forward, simple solution. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-1017506 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:06:24 +0000 marvinw 1017506@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>For people who didnt find a solution yet u can try this.</p> <p>1. Upload a picture in ie7 (If you can afcourse ;-))<br /> 2. U see a small box with a cross, right click on it and check out the location (This is probably wrong)<br /> 3. Change under Settings/Miscellaneous the path u see in step 2.</p> <p>Example:<br /> Image location url: <strong><a href="http://www.yourWEB.nl/wp-content/uploads/yourimage.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.yourWEB.nl/wp-content/uploads/yourimage.jpg</a></strong><br /> So path to store images must be <strong>wp-content/uploads</strong></p> <p>This and PHP Safe Mode off did the trick for me. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-979694 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:32:17 +0000 venzie 979694@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>When I click any of the icons in the Add New Post panel, nothing happens. No pop up, no upload interface, nothing. Browser just kinda displays the timer for a second then and does nothing. How do I fix this? I don't understand how this happened.</p> <p>When in the Media upload tab, only Browser Upload works. But its such a hassle to upload via that tab then copy paste links to your post. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-976258 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:42:41 +0000 jakikari 976258@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I had very similar symptoms and fixed it by altering my MTU settings. Please see my post here:</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/240658?replies=1" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/support/topic/240658?replies=1</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-975892 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:22:03 +0000 DrBillNye 975892@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I had similar problems as you all, but the chmod-ing and path were the first things I checked and still didn't help. I would get a HTTP Error and unable to upload, try again later error whenever I would upload images (it'd get to the crunching then puke on me)</p> <p>I found that if I upload smaller images ( &lt; 200k) it worked fine, so I have images now, but can anyone help with what I would need to change to get larger images uploaded (is it a buffer or something like that?)</p> <p>thx and good luck </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-969260 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:56:26 +0000 m_stoss 969260@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>(WP 2.7) </p> <p>I'm going mad. I set dozens of folders to all from 000 to 999, I renamed uploads, downloads, upload, uploat folders, not to speak of contents, condensed, comments, comementomori and morituri_te_salutant ones. I checked that safe_mode is set to OFF and ON and UP and DOWN. I disabled the one plugIn I dared to install, I went back to the basic WP theme instead of the one I needed. I set WP up again and trying with the hello world post alone: All in vain.</p> <p>What started with a plain "Unable to create directory ..." sometimes displayed a blank screen, using both the Flash and the Browser uploader. Strange enough sometimes the files were uploaded indeed, even if the uploader seemed to have gone stuck. </p> <p>What can I do? My general approach is to leave things like these alone for a day or so. But this is going on for 2 weeks now. Any idea? Any real answer on WHY this is happening?</p> <p>All help appreciated very much!</p> <p>Michael</p> <p>If code is poetry than WP 2.7 seems to be written by Kafka. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-956518 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:55:20 +0000 popart 956518@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I've managed to correct the blank screen problem. For me, it was a template issue which I've fixed. Image upload is now working for me. However, it often fails. It crunches and looks like it's working, but then no thumbnail is created. Not sure what the problem is at this point. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-953959 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:16:32 +0000 popart 953959@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I'm also having the blank screen problem when I try to upload an image (using WordPress 2.7). I've tried changing permissions and disabled plug-ins. Still not working. If you've found a solution to this problem, please post it here. Thanks! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-949545 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:47:30 +0000 j2cutie 949545@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>My path is already set to wp-content/uploads, but I'm still getting the white screen when I upload photos. This only happens in Firefox, I've been using IE to write my posts. Which isn't great, IE has its own glitches with WordPress that I don't like. But when I try to upload in Firefox it takes me to a completely different screen instead of just the old pop-up, and it goes through the steps of uploading but right before it should show me the screen with the photos in my gallery, the page goes blank. And nothing appears in the original post, it takes me away from the post altogether and I can't get back. I tried opening the photo upload screen in a new tab, but they seem to be completely disconnected.</p> <p>I had a similar problem with the last version, but not this bad. I had to upload my photos in IE, but once they were uploaded I could access them from the post's gallery or the Media Library in Firefox and insert them into my post. It's been ages since I've been able to just use Firefox to write my posts and upload my photos. I haven't seen any Moderator replies to this yet, so I'm hoping the problem gets fixed soon! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-940948 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:08:50 +0000 mra13 940948@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>There is a post with Video instructions at <a href="http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/?p=557">http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/?p=557</a> showing how to fix this image upload error if it helps anybody. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-938775 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:34:26 +0000 hfossli 938775@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>what harjeetsg said worked perfectly for me using the "old browser uploader".</p> <p>he wrote wrong thou'. should be wp-content/uploads instead of wp-contents/uploads </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840/page/2#post-938007 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:46:03 +0000 krisdevito 938007@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks harjeetsg<br /> Your suggestion worked for me. The path was wp-content and I updated it to wp-content/uploads (although it says on the side that default is wp-content/uploads - I guess a mistake in 2.7) and it works when I use the browser uploader.<br /> Thanks so much I was really struggling with this. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840#post-937949 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:17:41 +0000 fredmiller 937949@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Do you mean wp-content<br /> or<br /> wp-contents? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840#post-937701 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:15:05 +0000 harjeetsg 937701@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Solution for the error</p> <p>Step 1: Log into your admin panel</p> <p>Step 2: Go to Settings&gt;&gt;Miscellaneous</p> <p>You will see two options,</p> <p>Store uploads in this folder<br /> Full URL path to files<br /> Most probably you will see</p> <p>/home/.boogee/XXXXX/XXXXXXX/wp-content/uploads</p> <p>in the first field.</p> <p>Step 3: Edit that to just</p> <p>wp-contents/uploads</p> <p>PS: Please take a backup of what you are editing, incase this trick didnt work, you can restore the old URL.</p> <p>This should do the trick. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840#post-936419 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:45:20 +0000 samueljesse 936419@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>It worked for me, I manually mad a new folder called "uploads" and then changed the permissions higher and higher until it worked. It may have been 777 in the end...</p> <p>Then I tried uploading again and presto! Perhaps those who are changing permissions and not getting results on 2.7 are not manually creating the uploads folder to start with? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840#post-936409 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:28:02 +0000 prasadthombre 936409@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I tried every possible way to get this image upload error resolved includes...</p> <p>1) CHMOD 777<br /> 2) De-activating all plugins<br /> 3) tried path other than default wp-content/uploads to wp-content/userdata<br /> 4) edited database table entry...<br /> 5) Tried Installing fresh copy of Wordpress 2.7<br /> 6) using .htaccess file</p> <p>all this wasted... and i am still facing issues with media/photo uploads.</p> <p>Waiting for some accurate solution...</p> <p>Team<br /> <a href="http://www.myloverswish.com">MyLoversWish.com</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840#post-935115 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:10:00 +0000 dmahler 935115@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks folks! You gave me the idea to do the same. I disabled all my active plugins and started to reactivate them one-by-one! </p> <p>CommentLv is another plugin that stops the image uploader from working also! </p> <p>Thank you so much! Next time, I'll try disabling the plugins like that again! Lesson learned. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840#post-933442 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:26:20 +0000 BriefEpisode 933442@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks for the help on this one! It was driving me crazy.</p> <p>I deactivated the Amazon plugin and everything with my images returned to normal!</p> <p>If only I could get my tags to start working again... </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840#post-933425 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:49:13 +0000 daveconrey 933425@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I don't know if this is truly related or not, but I was having the same problem. I wasn't using the WP Amazon plugin, but I did still have the Automatic Upgrade plugin activated, which might have been a conflict with WP's new automatic upgrade feature. I disabled the plugin and it seems to be working fairly well. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840#post-933023 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:18:29 +0000 jeffsonstein 933023@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>but now I have a report that the image still does not show in the RSS feeds (sigh) </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840#post-932751 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:15:29 +0000 jeffsonstein 932751@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I found a <a href="http://www.cyriac.me/how-to-solve-image-upload-error-in-wordpress-27/">simple fix here</a></p> <p>jeffs </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840#post-932525 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:12:40 +0000 cyriacgc 932525@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>@eibhlin and all those who are facing the following error<br /> "unable to create directory XXX is it a parent directory writable by server ?"</p> <p>i fixed it using the following solution,<br /> NO NEED FOR ANY CHMOD to 777<br /> just edit the store uploads directory in settings&gt;miscellaneous to the default value (shown there)</p> <p>A more detailed solution is given here, <a href="http://www.cyriac.me/how-to-solve-image-upload-error-in-wordpress-27/">how to solve image upload error in wordpress 2.7</a></p> <p>hope this helps guys there </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224840#post-932442 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:16:56 +0000 mikaelwehner 932442@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I had the same problem with permissions on uploads after upgrading from 2.7 beta to 2.7. I got an error message telling that it couldn't upload to /wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ because permission was denied. All folders was there, the folders "2008" and "12" was created by WP and given permission 777. However, I did not have permission to change the permission on these folders myself. I then delete those two and created them again with permission 777 and everything worked.<br /> I hope this gets solved however, since I don't want to do this manually for every month of the year. </p>