WP Says Image Uploaded, But Image is Broken/Not there in FTP

No, your .htaccess shouldn’t have anything to do with it. Normally, you change the uploads folder to “777”, then upload something, and then set the permissions back to “755”, and that’s all it takes. You’re not getting an error message when you try to upload through WordPress? Does it go through the process like nothing’s wrong? Will it insert the image into the post? or does it stop at some point?

Do you have a link to a post or Page that is supposed ot have an image in it, but it’s not showing up?

Have you checked your server error logs to see what they say?

Nope, no error, it just goes through everything normally, and it will insert into the post and everything like nothing’s wrong. The image is just broken.

I don’t know if you can see this without being logged in?
https://www.whywaitwebs.com/blog/?p=48&preview=true

But there’s really nothing to look at. It just shows up as a broken image as one might expect.

I would have no idea what to look for in error logs (or where to find them, in fact). However I’m fairly certain nothing’s wrong on the server side, it’s WP that’s failing to upload the image? Anyway I will try to get ahold of those logs and see if I notice anything.

Nope, I can’t see that page without being logged in. (Is this where it’s showing up broken fr you – on your previews? If so – it’s probably just because it’s a preview.) If you can *publish* a page with an image, and then show me that link, maybe I can see what’s up.

*if* it’s WP that’s failing, there should be an error in the logs. You need to log into your hosts control panel, or FTP into your server, and get the error logs. Every host has a different way to manage those, so you’ll have to go in and look around, or ask your host where they are.

It’s broken everywhere, the image never gets uploaded in the first place. The problem is not in the display, or permissions… it is that WP fails to upload the image.

Besides that it’s an absolute URL, there is no reason why it wouldn’t appear correctly on previews.

If I do publish a page with an image, here’s what you will see:
<img src="https://www.whywaitwebs.com/wp-content/uploads/someimage.jpg" alt="Some Image">

And someimage.jpg won’t exist.

Did you contact your host?

Well, without seeing the error logs (or knowing what they say), there’s really not much we can tell you. You’ll have to take a look at those and see what’s going on. The only other suggestion I can offer (aside what iridiax asked) is to download fresh files and re-install. Anything else is just a shot in the dark

Hey luminous, I have the exact same problem. Everything seemingly uploads fine through WP Admin. The tool spits out the absolute path, but when I put it into the post and try to link to the image, it’s broken. Why? because no image was actually uploaded to the server.

It would be fine for me to just do it the clunky way. But this site is for a client and I have to have it fixed. Did you ever get this figured out?

Thanks so much in advance.

_j

Just to clarify, the clunky way being upload image through ftp. Then go into WP and write the direct path to the image.

BTW, just a thought, you’re not using an altered version of the tropicala theme are you?

_j

OH! Just realized something. luminous, did you move WordPress around on your server? Because I did. I switched directories and moved all of the files from one place to another. I just noticed that the images ARE uploading. They are just going to the old wp-content location.

Unfortunately I still have no idea where to go to fix this. Any help, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

_j

I have not moved my WordPress install away from the directory it was originally installed to like you colvard. And they are not getting uploaded anywhere on my server, I have looked in every possible folder.

I managed to get ahold of my access and error logs. The error log does not log anything at all. The access log shows what I imagine is completely unhelpful, but I’ll post it just in case

https://pastebin.com/m30edc6a1

I’m getting sick of dealing with this. If you don’t know what’s up with this, maybe you could suggest a reputable company that I can pay to fix it and have done with it???

Thanks for all the help, I do appreciate it.

I have the same (or similar) problem. The image upload process ends correctly, but once aparenly uploaded, theres only a blank image with the name of the picture displayed (even in the mediabrowser). When i connect via ftp to the upolads folder, in fact, there is no image uploaded.
Strange, and i don’t no why, but sometimes the upload works fine… for a while (or sometimes only for one image). And no, i dont get any error message. Just blank images.
I tried to make a new “Clean” installation of WordPress, without any plugin activated, but still the same issue.

Someone has any idea what could happen? Solution?

Mosquitone, that does sound like exactly my problem. Even with no plugins or anything, it still happens, which leads me to be very confused, I can’t think of anything that could cause this.

I would really, really like to start posting content. I can’t do that until I have images. Can I please get a suggestion, at the very least if you can’t help me, point me to someone who can (even if it’s for a fee)?

Please, I really need to get this thing going. It’s killing me that I STILL haven’t blogged!

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Did you ever contact your web host? Tell them that you can’t upload images through WordPress and ask them if they are using any security settings that may prevent this from working.

Do you have anything else (hotlink protection, password protection, redirects, etc.) in your .htaccess besides the WordPress stuff?