Title: cannot post / update or upload media Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # cannot post / update or upload media * Resolved [synchro1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/synchro1/) * (@synchro1) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-post-update-or-upload-media/) * Please can someone help me. I manage the website for a sports club and I have been using wordpress on my lenovo laptop on windows 10 on firefox for quite a while and it has worked fine. Today I can access the dashboard, stats, etc but when I try to post, update a post or upload media it hangs for ages and then I get the following: * if I am trying to post or update a post I get a new page with – “The connection was reset The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading. The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection. If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.” * if I am trying to upload media I get a little white box with: “HTTP error.” * It seems like it is a problem with the connection to the server – could it be timing out? I can deactivate one plug in, for example, but if I try to deactivate them all at once I get the ‘connection reset’ page as above. * I spoke to someone at godaddy who said it was something to do with my end. I have tried doing the above on another computer and it works so it is definietly something to do with this pc. The same thing happens on different browsers on this pc (including private browsers). * Does anyone have any ideas what it could be as I really need to work from this laptop as all the photos, etc are on it? * Oh, and since I started trying to sort this I have also lost the wording when I go to edit a post. Everything is still on the site, just not appearing when I click to edit it. I don’t know whether this is connected or is from something I have done today. * I am a novice at this so please bear with me if this is a really simple problem but the chap at godaddy couldn’t explain to me why it might work on one computer and not another. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [hmclean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hmclean/) * (@hmclean) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-post-update-or-upload-media/#post-7336251) * Please check the [WordPress 4.5 Master List](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-this-first-wordpress-45-master-list) to see if any of the known issues pertain to your site. * There is a known problem with uploading media, [discussed extensively in this thread](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-when-uploading-images-17). Or [check the tag http error](https://wordpress.org/tags/http-error) and you will see many responses. * Thread Starter [synchro1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/synchro1/) * (@synchro1) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-post-update-or-upload-media/#post-7336254) * Thanks for your post. I read through the master list first and did all the usual things. So did the chap from godaddy. I also spent quite a long time reading through posts on this site as well as others before I posted and really couldn’t find issues where it worked on one computer but not another. I don’t think it is a problem with my site as much as a problem with the pc. * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-post-update-or-upload-media/#post-7336263) * Please post a link. * Thread Starter [synchro1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/synchro1/) * (@synchro1) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-post-update-or-upload-media/#post-7336298) * Hello – I have just worked out that it is to do with the microsoft firewall which must have been updated recently and is now blocking me uploading anything to wordpress. I now need to work out how to fix the firewall so I don’t need to turn it off completely, but I will mark this as fixed anyway. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘cannot post / update or upload media’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [connection was reset](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/connection-was-reset/) * [http error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/http-error/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [synchro1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/synchro1/) * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-post-update-or-upload-media/#post-7336298) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics