Uploading .webm format results in security guidline breach and fail

  • Hi

    I cannot upload the .webm video format.
    This is after adding:
    AddType video/webm .webm

    into both:
    my .htaccess file (on the root folder of the wordpress installation)
    the mime type handler of our apache server (via our site cpanel)

    As far as i remember, at first this message instantly gave me the error, it would even begin uploading it. Now it uploads it all the way and then while crunching, i get the error.

    The error is

    “1.webm” has failed to upload due to an error
File type does not meet security guidelines. Try another.

    Has anyone else had this problem?!

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  • Thread Starter rgbk

    (@rgbk)

    More info:

    What’s really peculiar is that another video format called ogv (Theora) was not being recognised in the html5 player, BUT it wasn’t breaching security according to wordpress.
    So I added the mimetype to the apache (not via htaccess) and voila, it worked.

    I think this is a bug within wordpress, surely?

    Thread Starter rgbk

    (@rgbk)

    Bump, seriously, no one has ever needed to use webm on wordpress?

    There’s a ticket in at the moment to address this error message, but basically you need to edit the allowed mime types using a plugin such as https://blog.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/mime-config/

    Or rather, your administrator would need to. If you’re the admin, I don’t think you should be seeing this message.

    Thread Starter rgbk

    (@rgbk)

    Hi there Mr Mist

    Thanks for letting me know.

    I am an admin! Thats the weird thing.

    I’ll take a look at this plugin.

    Best
    Marc

    Installing the plugin PJW Mime Config gives you a new options page –
    Options > Mime-types – which allows you to add/delete the extra mime-types.

    Adding a File Extension “webm” with the Associated Mime Type “video/webm” solves the webm upload problem.

    I hope the WordPress team adds video/webm as an accepted mime type to core in future versions of WordPress. I guess we’ll see a steep growth in usage with Googles marketing force behind the format.

    I have had the same issues with being unable to upload a webm file type – I also modified the Settings – Upload settings and added the webm extension as well as adding it to the type to my .htaccess file but had no luck. Finally, I stumbled across this forum and gave The PJW Mime Config a shot and it solved this issue in my current version of WordPress 3.1.3. I hope it works for 3.2 (will be upgrading to that soon).

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