Wordpress: “HTTP Error.” When Uploading Files

Question

I\'m running WP 3.0.1 on a shared host using PHP5. I\'m having issues uploading files that are a little larger via the media uploader in the admin section of WP.

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Answer 1

For me, "http error" issue occurred when php is running in fast cgi mode.

"MaxRequestLen" from mod_fcgid was limiting file upload size and wordpress was throwing "http error".

You need to add the following configurations in your httpd.conf (apache2.conf on ubuntu 14) :

<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
  # 20MB
  MaxRequestLen 20000000
</IfModule>

Answer 2

server maybe have imagick installed as default library , for a fix for wordpress

I put the following code into my functions.php file. It works!

add_filter( 'wp_image_editors', 'change_graphic_lib' );

function change_graphic_lib($array) {
  return array( 'WP_Image_Editor_GD', 'WP_Image_Editor_Imagick' );
}

Answer 3

I had a similar problem with Nginx and PHP5-FPM (and WordPress 4.1).

Symptoms: the file (< 5MB, so relatively small) is partway through the transfer, as indicated by the progress bar, when suddenly you get the HTTP error message.

Even if you've set upload_max_filesize in your php.ini, you should also check post_max_size is (at least) as big. Remember to restart php5-fpm.

If it still doesn't work, edit your nginx.conf file (in Debian/Ubuntu it's /etc/nginx/nginx.conf) and add this in the http block:

client_max_body_size 100m;

Then restart Nginx.

Answer 4

For future readers, just managed to find the solution to this one after a tough day of searching.

There's a setting in the fcgid.conf file (for me in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled): FcgidMaxRequestLen. See https://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/mod/mod_fcgid.html#fcgidmaxrequestlen

I set that in bytes to an appropriate length and everything works. It seems that apache have changed their thinking on the default value (which is now 131072 bytes):

Before 2.3.6, this defaulted to 1GB. Most users of earlier versions should use this directive to set a more reasonable limit.

Answer 5

Put this line in your wp-config file:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

Answer 6

Our problem actually was client side: people tried to upload via drag and drop from OneDrive, files that have not been locally synchronised but showed up in the OneDrive folder. Resulted in "-200" error message. If file is on local harddrive, it worked fine.