HTTP Error in media upload tool

  • Hi All,
    Is there a universal fix yet for HTTP Error that appears in the image upload tool?

    I just uploaded 2.5.1 and I thought that would eliminate the problem. Apparently I had a clean upload of 2.5.1 … or at least wp automatic upgrade said so.

    I cleaned the file out of the js cache. But I don’t want to proceed further ’til I get some advice.

    After I select and open a picture from My Pictures in the little browser box, I get a red HTTP Error message on the screen of the image tool.

    What if I just uploaded a pic to /images file? What code would I use to insert the pic in my post? The path I used was /public_html/myblog/wp-includes/images. The pic’s in there now.

    With some great help, I got all my plugins problems solved. I’m just flingin’ plugins all over the place, now.

    Gene

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  • Thread Starter gene-belmont

    (@gene-belmont)

    Bumped this up ’cause I’m getting a little desperate about getting pics on my site.

    I’m totally confused about all the answers. I know they come from folks who are really trying to help, but every time I read about a fix, there seems to be more posts that it didn’t work for them.

    It’s hard to believe that a platform as prestigious as WordPress has not addressed this problem with a final fix.

    OK, I’ll just skip the image upload tool. How do I, in detail, upload images through the /images file on my server side (through ftp)?

    I’ll be forever grateful for an answer to that question.

    Gene

    I had a similar problem with my blog. Was fine until I upgraded to 2.5.
    If you have exhausted all other avenues, I would contact your host. My host (Hostgator) was blocking the upload of images for security. I had to tell them the location of all of my blogs so that they could remove the security feature. This worked perfectly.

    When I was getting the problem I was just getting “http error”, but I know some people got “crunching” instead.

    It seems that the server was logging this message: mod_security: Access denied with code 403. Pattern match “^Shockwave Flash” at HEADER(“USER-AGENT”) [id “***MY ID”][rev “1”] [msg “SpamBot UA”] [severity “CRITICAL”] [hostname “***MY-DOMAIN***”] [uri “/testing/blog/wp-admin/async-upload.php”]

    Hope this helps you guys. I spent hours trying sugegsted fixes. I never would have guessed that it was a security issue with my host. After contacting them it was fixed within the hour.
    At first they argued that it was 3rd party software, but I told them that I had a test blog and I also had blogs on 2 servers and it was the same on all of them. They referred me to their higher level support and they fixed it within an hour.

    Let me know the outcome. [email protected]

    To fix the issue you can also add the following lines to your .htaccess file;

    <IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
 SecFilterEngine Off
 SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>

    @petercoughlin Thx, this worked for me on my hostgator acct.

    Anyone know if there are security issues in adding these lines to .htaccess?

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    First, these answers are in the sticky post and have been for months:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/164999

    Second: There’s no real security issue from that particular set of lines. It simply disables the security checks on the upload receiving part of WordPress.

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