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2.7 Image Upload Not Working (49 posts)

  1. krisdevito
    Member
    Posted 11 months ago #

    Thanks harjeetsg
    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.
    Thanks so much I was really struggling with this.

  2. hfossli
    Member
    Posted 11 months ago #

    what harjeetsg said worked perfectly for me using the "old browser uploader".

    he wrote wrong thou'. should be wp-content/uploads instead of wp-contents/uploads

  3. mra13
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    There is a post with Video instructions at http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/?p=557 showing how to fix this image upload error if it helps anybody.

  4. j2cutie
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    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.

    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!

  5. popart
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    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!

  6. popart
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    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.

  7. m_stoss
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    (WP 2.7)

    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.

    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.

    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?

    All help appreciated very much!

    Michael

    If code is poetry than WP 2.7 seems to be written by Kafka.

  8. DrBillNye
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    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)

    I found that if I upload smaller images ( < 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?)

    thx and good luck

  9. jakikari
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    I had very similar symptoms and fixed it by altering my MTU settings. Please see my post here:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/240658?replies=1

  10. venzie
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    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.

    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.

  11. marvinw
    Member
    Posted 8 months ago #

    For people who didnt find a solution yet u can try this.

    1. Upload a picture in ie7 (If you can afcourse ;-))
    2. U see a small box with a cross, right click on it and check out the location (This is probably wrong)
    3. Change under Settings/Miscellaneous the path u see in step 2.

    Example:
    Image location url: http://www.yourWEB.nl/wp-content/uploads/yourimage.jpg
    So path to store images must be wp-content/uploads

    This and PHP Safe Mode off did the trick for me.

  12. euphonywho
    Member
    Posted 8 months ago #

    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:

    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 images. Make sure the permissions are set to 777 (I haven't tested with any other, because I'm too tired to right now).

    2. Go to Settings/Misc, and change the the "Store uploads in this folder" from wp-content/uploads to that folder. All you have to do is type in the name of the folder. So my entry looks like images.

    Test it out and see if it works. This worked for me and seems like a straight-forward, simple solution.

  13. tstynes
    Member
    Posted 8 months ago #

    When I try to upload photos on WordPress 2.7.1, I get an error message "Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/2009/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server?" The directory already exists and the write permissions have not be altered. HELP!!

  14. shavityoav
    Member
    Posted 7 months ago #

    Hi,
    I found the solution to this problem after very long (very very) time.
    It's so simple, I'm shame to explain:
    You have to check if the URL for the installation do not have any
    CAPITAL letters.
    * You can change this URL at the settings panel

    I had! When i change it to be without any CAPITALS it works

    Whoopee
    Hope this is also your bug

  15. gso2
    Member
    Posted 7 months ago #

    "Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/2009/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server?"

    I received the same message. I assigned 777 to the /wp-content/uploads folder and every thing was OK.
    I am using only following plugins: -
    1. Lightbox plus 2. NospamNX 3. WP mail SMTP 4. WP super cache

    Good luck!

  16. dienast
    Member
    Posted 7 months ago #

    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.

  17. flipstips
    Member
    Posted 6 months ago #

    Hey eibhlin,

    Thank you for solving my problem with the image issue. I read your instructions and that helped me! Http://www.flipstips.com

    First, I had to fix the problems created by rolling back to 2.6.5.

    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.

    My existing images reappeared on my website. Whew!

    But, retrying 2.7, I was still reaching the error message when I tried to upload new images through WordPress.

    An overnight conversation with tech support ensued, and they found the problem.

    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.

    So, switching all folders back to CHMOD 755 solved the problem.

  18. salaknib
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    @euphonywho

    Changing the folder to wp-contents/images worked!!! thank you!

  19. jrdanielco
    Member
    Posted 2 weeks ago #

    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.

    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.

    Rick

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