Title: Uploading Header Image error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Uploading Header Image error

 *  Resolved [bartash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bartash/)
 * (@bartash)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-header-image-error/)
 * When ever i try to upload an image i get 500 internal serve error screen and 
   in error.log im getting
 * > [Fri Dec 21 14:08:11 2012] [warn] [client 176.252.105.206] mod_fcgid: HTTP 
   > request length 132260 (so far) exceeds MaxRequestLen (131072), referer: [http://plantedtankuk.co.uk/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header](http://plantedtankuk.co.uk/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header)
   > [
   > Fri Dec 21 14:08:17 2012] [warn] [client 176.252.105.206] mod_fcgid: HTTP request
   > length 131124 (so far) exceeds MaxRequestLen (131072), referer: [http://plantedtankuk.co.uk/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header](http://plantedtankuk.co.uk/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header)[
   > Fri Dec 21 14:08:30 2012] [warn] [client 176.252.105.206] mod_fcgid: HTTP request
   > length 135880 (so far) exceeds MaxRequestLen (131072), referer: [http://plantedtankuk.co.uk/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header](http://plantedtankuk.co.uk/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header)[
   > Fri Dec 21 14:09:22 2012] [warn] [client 176.252.105.206] mod_fcgid: HTTP request
   > length 132260 (so far) exceeds MaxRequestLen (131072), referer: [http://plantedtankuk.co.uk/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header](http://plantedtankuk.co.uk/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header)[
   > Fri Dec 21 14:11:57 2012] [warn] [client 176.252.105.206] mod_fcgid: HTTP request
   > length 131336 (so far) exceeds MaxRequestLen (131072), referer: [http://plantedtankuk.co.uk/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header](http://plantedtankuk.co.uk/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header)[
   > Fri Dec 21 14:12:06 2012] [warn] [client 176.252.105.206] mod_fcgid: HTTP request
   > length 132260 (so far) exceeds MaxRequestLen (131072), referer: [http://plantedtankuk.co.uk/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header](http://plantedtankuk.co.uk/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header)

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 *  [tylerhq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tylerhq/)
 * (@tylerhq)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-header-image-error/#post-3298248)
 * Where are you hosted?
 * I found the answer on another [thread](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-upload-images-larger-than-128kb-http-error):
 * > [http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=112735](http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=112735)
   > Basically you need to mod the fcgid.conf file to allow a longer request length.
   > On some linux distributions this is file is located at /etc/apache2/conf.d/
   > fcgid.conf. On others it might be located at /etc/httpd/conf.d/fcgid.conf .
   > It could also be located in another place. Whereever it is, you need to add
   > this:
   > FcgidMaxRequestLen 1073741824
 *  Thread Starter [bartash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bartash/)
 * (@bartash)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-header-image-error/#post-3298249)
 * thx tyler my host has just emailed me back and said they fixed it. All working
   now 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [bartash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bartash/)
 * (@bartash)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-header-image-error/#post-3298263)
 * I asked my host for how he fixed this issue and he kindly responded
 * > in the config file for the website, located at /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/100-
   > plantedtankuk.co.uk.vhost, I added the line:
   > FcgidMaxRequestLen 1073741824
   > in the <IfModule mod_fcgid.c> section.
 * I hope this helps anyone who has an issue with not being able to upload any images
 * Carl

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