Another (new) solution to Media Upload problems

  • Resolved jlock602

    (@jlock602)


    14 years, 7 months ago

    After much debugging I finally tracked down another source of the infamous “http error” while uploading images to the Media Library. This applies to either the Flash or Browser upload method.

    If your image contains IPTC data, this is usually embedded within the file in XML format. You must have an “XML Parser” module installed in PHP at your host in order for WordPress to handle the embedded data correctly.

    If your PHP installation does not include some kind of XML parsing support, WordPress will fail when trying to read the embedded IPTC data. It will leave the file in the upload folder, but not create any of the other sizes or a database entry.

    Contact your web host to be sure an XML parser is available in your PHP installation. Since IPTC data is becoming more and more common in image files this should really be part of the WordPress minimum requirements for installation.

    John Lock
    Technology Director
    Relevant Arts
    https://www.relevantarts.com

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  • Hi,

    I am very happy i came across this as i’ve been trying to find a way of uploading images onto this blog (https://www.bomon.me) with IPTC tags but have failed to do so, so far.

    Would you be kind enough to help me figure this out with the xml parser solution?

    Many thanks
    Alex.

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