Flash uploader hangs

Resolved nincblog
(@nincblog)

15 years, 8 months ago

I have tried everything listed in the Image/Media Uploader problems http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164999 sticky and I still can’t get the media uploader to work.

I deleted ALL files completely from the server, got a new download of 2.6, then uploaded all the files. I did the same thing with the theme files. I have cleared the cache, closed browsers, and rebooted many times over several days. I have tried both IE and FireFox browsers on 2 different computers. I upgraded my Flash version. I have tried it before ever installing any plugins (on the clean new install). I have added the .htaccess file to the wp_admin folder. 7 & 8 don’t apply because I can’t get to the place to upload a file. I did replace the function.php in 8b. And I have tried it with both the blank default location, and customizing the image location filling in both the uploads and full path fields.

I have even tried the No-Flash-Uploader plugin (and upgraded the version to the one which works with 2.6) It is still trying to load the flash uploader.

I would love to use the Browser Uploader, but don’t see a link for it anywhere.

When I click on Add Media button (any of them), I get the white box with the stripes and it just spins for several minutes. If I just wait it out, after 3-5 mins, I will eventually get the Choose File options and a You are using the browser uploader message. If I select a file to upload, the entire process starts over again. After 3-5 minutes, it shows that the image has been uploaded. Then I try to save, and it is another 3-5 minutes before that happens. Meanwhile no image is ever added to the post.

I don’t know what else to try. I have spent way too many hours trying to get this resolved and have made no progress at all. Any help would be appreciated.

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Thread Starter nincblog
(@nincblog)

15 years, 8 months ago

Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions beyond what is in the sticky?

My client’s site is non-functional without images. That’s why I went with WordPress instead of creating a more traditional site for them- so they could upload images.

This was a clean install of 2.6, not an upgrade.

nosferatuscoffin
(@nosferatuscoffin)

15 years, 8 months ago

WP 2.6 is riddled with bugs. It barely qualifies as an Alpha or RC1 candidate, much less a full release. The simplest tasks are now either non-functional or require workarounds that should be not needed in the first place. Somebody really dropped the ball on this release.

I also am having trouble with the Flash Uploader as well and for now am using the Browser Uploader. As for WP not finding the proper path to the image file, you need to go to Settings/Misc and change:

Store uploads in this folder

From:
uploads

To:
wp-content/uploads

WP will then properly fill in the proper URL for the image uploaded locally.

This is a classic case of totally unacceptable bug that never should have been present in the first place. (I will not even get into how 2.6 will not even handle line breaks properly now).

Anyway, I hope this works for you.

Thread Starter nincblog
(@nincblog)

15 years, 8 months ago

Thanks, but I had already tried that and everything on the sticky post. I did figure this out though. It’s very frustrating. My site that I upgraded to 2.6 is working fine. It’s the new install of 2.6 that is causing all my headaches.

muddsucka
(@muddsucka)

15 years, 8 months ago

I too tried all of the ideas listed in http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164999, but I cannot get the Flash uploader to work. The browser upload method works fine.

As for the flash uploader: once the image is “uploaded” (which doesn’t actually upload the image), the bottom half of the page redirects to the login page for the blog.

Any ideas?
watson
(@watson)

15 years, 8 months ago
The Flash uploader does not work for me either. As far as I can tell it has been the same bug/issue for me in both WordPress 2.5, 2.5.1 and now 2.6.1.

The problem is as follows:
- After selecting which files to upload, the uploader starts an asynchron upload for each file, each with its own progress bar. But the progress bar doesn’t move at all and within half a second I get the same error message for each file: “An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later.”
- If I check the server access logs I see that the request is getting through to the server, but generates a ‘503’ http status code (Service Unavailable): "POST /wp-admin/async-upload.php HTTP/1.1" 503 - "-" "Adobe Flash Player 9"
Some people suggest that I disable mod_security in Apache. But I’m running Apache 2.2 on FreeBSD and as far as I can see no standard module is named mod_security. At least I’m not running it. Here are my compiled in modules:
```
core.c
  mod_authn_file.c
  mod_authz_host.c
  mod_authz_groupfile.c
  mod_authz_user.c
  mod_auth_basic.c
  mod_deflate.c
  mod_log_config.c
  mod_env.c
  mod_setenvif.c
  mod_proxy.c
  mod_proxy_http.c
  mod_proxy_balancer.c
  mod_ssl.c
  prefork.c
  http_core.c
  mod_mime.c
  mod_cgi.c
  mod_dir.c
  mod_alias.c
  mod_rewrite.c
  mod_so.c
```
In httpd.conf I’m also loading the following:
```
LoadModule autoindex_module   libexec/apache22/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule dav_module         libexec/apache22/mod_dav.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module      libexec/apache22/mod_dav_fs.so
LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache22/libphp5.so
LoadModule status_module      libexec/apache22/mod_status.so
LoadModule dav_svn_module     libexec/apache22/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module   libexec/apache22/mod_authz_svn.so
```
La M
(@lady_moocher)

15 years, 1 month ago

Me neither – now on version 2.7.