Title: File Upload Problem
Last modified: July 24, 2019

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# File Upload Problem

 *  Resolved [chemdata](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chemdata/)
 * (@chemdata)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-upload-problem-10/)
 * I just installed and activated the plugin. When I try to upload a file I get 
   the following error message: **“An appropriate representation of the requested
   resource could not be found on this server. This error was generated by Mod_Security.”**

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 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-upload-problem-10/#post-11765065)
 * Contact your host. mod_security might be blocking it.
 *  Thread Starter [chemdata](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chemdata/)
 * (@chemdata)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-upload-problem-10/#post-11783922)
 * Lester thanks for the help. My host whitelisted the ModSecurity problem thereby
   fixing it.

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-upload-problem-10/#post-11783922)
 * Status: resolved