Craig Hesser

Hello – I have been doing some work with “hardening” my WP sites, and I experienced the same problem as Andy Roy with one site that I am modifying significantly. I have not yet resolved it, but I am sure that the problem is in ownership of the images. When I look at the files available in the control panel, there are over 300 images, but when I try to use an existing image or upload a new image, they are forbidden 403. I also get the grey squares in the media library that Andy got.

One of the “hardening” efforts I used is to protect images etc. from being modified or used (hotlinked) by others. This apparently persists even when the Better WP Security plugin (among others) is deactivated. I suspect the answer here is to deactivate the appropriate setting(s) in the original security software.

I’m not going to link to my site because it is in constant flux, but then also sometimes off-and-on.

Hello,

I had the same problem but only on one blog where it is the only one on a host. It appeared only after the automatic upgrade to 2.9 fom 2.8.x.

After the error shows for the gzuncompress (2x) then I get a list of ALL the database files with comments that they were not written or similar, and it says (the scary part) “MySQL server has gone away” and THAT scared the bejeebers out of me. Except then everything else seemed to function perfectly normally.

For me, it disappeared after the auto upgrade to 2.9.1 (today).

Glad to find an easy fix!

Thanks to all involved.