Another Media Upload problem

  • rockshoreidyll

    (@thedrawlyn)


    15 years ago

    I am having the “media upload” problem reported in other threads on this forum. I have tried the suggestions:
    * chmod -R 777 wp-content/uploads/2011/05
    * Create a new (chmod 777) upload dir and point the Media at it.
    * Try turning on or off the “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders” option
    * Disable plugins.
    * Turned them all off, except the qTranslate one as I’m concerned I’ll have problems getting it re-enabled.

    Observations:
    The flash uploader shows the upload progress bar, and gets to “crunching…”, and then gives this error:
    “8-MH.jpg” has failed to upload due to an error
    File upload stopped by extension.

    Where the HTML uploader goes back to the media library and shows this message: “Error saving media attachment.”

    There’s nothing in the apache error log about this.

    I found that the default wp-content/uploads/<year>/<month> directories are actually mode 755, and when I changed them to 777, they revert to 755. I suspect this is a security feature of my web hosting provider, but I’m not sure.

    As I mentioned, I created a separate media folder, outside the wp-content tree and ensured it is 777.

    When I tried to upload to this new folder, I got the same errors noted above, but I noticed that the <year> and <month> sub-folders were created. This tells me that WP can write to those folders, which is good.

    However it can’t seem to save the uploaded file.

    Does anyone have any suggestions?

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years ago

    File upload stopped by extension.

    This suggests that the upload is being stopped at the server level. Have you asked your hosts about this?

    Thread Starter rockshoreidyll

    (@thedrawlyn)

    15 years ago

    It could be, but Apache is showing no errors in the log and PHP is at the recommended settings.

    I’ve tried uploading using another pc with the same results. None of my other instances of WP ar having this problem. Of the other four instances, two also use Suffusion. There is a smattering of plugins that they do not share.

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