Title: File Upload Weirdness
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# File Upload Weirdness

 *  [northernmonkee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/northernmonkee/)
 * (@northernmonkee)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-upload-weirdness/)
 * I’ve got wordpress up and running on a Windows IIS server (I know, I know, sorry–
   employers choice).
 * Everything seems OK except for file upload, if I write a post and select to upload
   a file it just seems to process the upload but not act on it. The files are being
   loaded to the uploads directory but there is no next step at all.
 * I’ve created a test account so you can see what I mean The URL is
 * [http://www.wheresciencesucceeds.co.uk/review/wp-admin/](http://www.wheresciencesucceeds.co.uk/review/wp-admin/)
 * Username support, password support
 * Any help would be much appreciated.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-upload-weirdness/#post-372836)
 * Weird – I uploaded an image called 3glass3.jpg
    Did it upload? And the expected
   behaviour did not happen …. all the files have uploaded correctly? Anything in
   an error log?
 *  Thread Starter [northernmonkee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/northernmonkee/)
 * (@northernmonkee)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-upload-weirdness/#post-372837)
 * The file has uploaded but did it show you the options after uploading or did 
   it just disappear off screen?
 * I tried uploading a .bmp file from a Windows machine and got this error
 * `WordPress database error: [Field 'post_content_filtered' doesn't have a default
   value]
    INSERT INTO wp_posts (post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_content,
   post_title, post_excerpt, post_status, comment_status, ping_status, post_password,
   post_name, to_ping, pinged, post_modified, post_modified_gmt, post_parent, menu_order,
   post_mime_type, guid) VALUES ('2', '2006-04-13 12:48:40', '2006-04-13 11:48:40','','
   main.bmp', '', 'attachment', 'open', 'open', '', 'mainbmp', '', '', '2006-04-
   13 12:48:40', '2006-04-13 11:48:40', '-1144928907', '0', 'image/bmp', 'http://
   www.wheresciencesucceeds.co.uk/review/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/main.bmp')
 * WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual
   that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near''
   at line 3]
    SELECT category_id FROM wp_post2cat WHERE post_id =
 * WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual
   that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near'
   1)' at line 2]
    INSERT INTO wp_post2cat (post_id, category_id) VALUES (, 1)
 * WordPress database error: [Out of range value adjusted for column 'post_id' at
   row 1]
    INSERT INTO wp_postmeta (post_id,meta_key,meta_value) VALUES ('','_wp_attached_file','
   D:\inetpub\wwwroot\wheresciencesucceeds\review/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/main.
   bmp')
 * WordPress database error: [Out of range value adjusted for column 'post_id' at
   row 1]
    INSERT INTO wp_postmeta (post_id,meta_key,meta_value) VALUES ('','_wp_attachment_metadata','
   a:4:{s:5:\"width\";i:215;s:6:\"height\";i:166;s:14:\"hwstring_small\";s:23:\"
   height=\'96\' width=\'124\'\";s:4:\"file\";s:82:\"D:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\wheresciencesucceeds\\
   review/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/main.bmp\";}')
 * Is this a WordPress thing? Or something I need to look at on my server?
 *  Thread Starter [northernmonkee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/northernmonkee/)
 * (@northernmonkee)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-upload-weirdness/#post-373087)
 * Does anyone have any suggestions on this?
 * Thanks
    Andy

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 * Last reply from: [northernmonkee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/northernmonkee/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-upload-weirdness/#post-373087)
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