I’m using 1and1 for hosting and have been having this problem since I upgraded to 2.9. I was able to solve it today on 1and1 by changing the .htaccess in the wordpress installation folder to use php5 by default. I added this code at the top of the .htaccess file:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
It worked immediately. Even with all my plugins activated. Give this a shot if you are hosting with 1and1.
The problem in my case was none of the above — it was the image itself. I’m not 100% sure what, but even goofing around with it in Photoshop several times resulted in a garbage JPG which simply wouldn’t upload. Any other file would upload just fine.
I’m using 1and1 for hosting and have been having this problem since I upgraded to 2.9. I was able to solve it today on 1and1 by changing the .htaccess in the wordpress installation folder to use php5 by default. I added this code at the top of the .htaccess file:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
It worked immediately. Even with all my plugins activated. Give this a shot if you are hosting with 1and1.
just wanted to confirm that this fixed the issue for me! Thanks so much, there are quite a few 1&1 wordpress issues so far, but I have been able to fix them all so far.
This is killing me. I also have a 1&1 account and it seems like the .htaccess file solution is the perfect one, but I cannot for the life of me find the .htaccess file in my wordpress installation folder! I have it so hidden files are shown but it’s still not there. I’m using permalinks (I think) so I don’t think that’s the problem…what am I doing?? Please help!!!
I’m using 1and1 too and this line solved my problem, too!
maximumbeth–it should be there in the root of your wordpress installation folder. I’m guessing your ftp program is hiding it as a hidden file or something?
This might work. All the advice to update my htaccess was not helping. I run my blog on a windows server. This is how I fixed this HTTP error problem.
With in your Dashboard go to Settings and then Miscellaneous Setting.
For some reason my hosting site automatically added this to the Store upload files path.
(/home/users/web/b2284/ipw.livingproofbc/nt/blog/wp-content/uploads)
I deleted it all and replaced it with
wp-content/uploads (just as recommend.) (Also make sure you have a uploads file in your wp-content folder)
Now IT WORKS!
This only took me 8 hours of tweaking to get it to work. Hope this works for you.
photoclasshero
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Posted 3 months ago #
I’m using 1and1 for hosting and have been having this problem since I upgraded to 2.9. I was able to solve it today on 1and1 by changing the .htaccess in the wordpress installation folder to use php5 by default. I added this code at the top of the .htaccess file:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
It worked immediately. Even with all my plugins activated. Give this a shot if you are hosting with 1and1.
I am using 1 and 1 and this worked like a charm!!! š Thanks!
@photoclasshero
That did the trick.. No more HTTP ERRORS when uploading/crunching images. Friggin’ Genious!!! I use 1and1 too and I think they suck!
Hello, I had a similar problem:
– images smaller than approximately 640 x 480 would upload properly but I would get the “http error” message on image crunch with anything larger.
I tried different variations of the .htaccess hack, but finally found Jon R. Wilson’s to work! (I didn’t even have to put the .htaccess file in higher-up directories, only in the root wordpress directory.
My own setup is a PHP Version 5.2.13 server hosted by 1and1.com.
Hope this helps someone else! Thanks Mr. Wilson.
More often than not, all you need to do is use the Browser Upoloader. The Browser Uploader worked perfectly fine for me after getting errors on the Flash Uploader.
If you’re using WPMU, you may be getting this error because of the “fileupload_maxk” setting in the “wp_sitemeta” table.
Ok, if you’re uploading big files, you may have changed the PHP ini settings so that you can upload files larger than the PHP default of 2MB — as discussed here. However, it seems that WPMU enforces it’s own separate file upload size limit. When using the browser uploader, you’ll get an error that says:
“This file is too big. Files must be less than 1500 Kb in size.”
But if you use the flash uploader, you get the dreaded “HTTP Error”.
Increasing the “fileupload_maxk” as detailed in this article made both errors go away for me š
Shane G’s method worked for me, thanks mate!
Cheers
I had this problem after upgrading to 3.0. Photoclasshero’s method solved it.
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
I’m using 1&1 and I added the above line at the top of my .htaccess in the root directory only and it fixed the issue.
Use the “Browse Uploader” option if getting “HTTP Error.” in red. it worked for me š
