There is no need to say that i was very much excited to upgrade my old worpress to the latest version WordPress 2.7. But it didnt lasted for long. As i was preparing the previous article Why you should upgrade to WordPress 2.7 ? i tried to upload few screen captures of the new interface. But then all the excitement went to PANIC.

This is what i got when i tried to upload an image.

wordpress-2_7-image-upload-error

wordpress-2_7-image-upload-error

/home/.boogee/cyriac/cyriac.me/wp-content/uploads

So I googled for the solution and i had to research for 3 hours to find a solution. I found the solution from WordPress Support Forum. As usual all WordPress upgrades have some problems. Its actual cause is unknown, because only few have this, for others it works just fine.

In that various solutions were given and some claim they work too, but for me the following solution worked.

Solution for the error

Step 1: Log into your admin panel

Step 2: Go to Settings>>Miscellaneous

You will see two options,

  1. Store uploads in this folder
  2. Full URL path to files

Most probably you will see

/home/.boogee/XXXXX/XXXXXXX/wp-content/uploads

in the first field.

Step 3: Edit that to just

wp-contents/uploads

PS: Please take a backup of what you are editing, incase this trick didnt work, you can restore the old URL.

This should do the trick.

Why I like this solution ?

Other solutions given in the forum were including CHMOD’ing wp-content directory to 777, and everybody who has little “techie” knowledge doesnt like that. Its because CHMOD 777 means, everybody has access to that folder and they can write/read or do what ever they want. Generally this will leave a security hole. Lucky for me, that didnt work too, else I would have to be affraid from a security hack anytime. Lucky for me the other solution worked fine, it doesnt leave any security holes.

So did you guys upgrade your wordpress to the latest version ? Did you guys had this “image upload error” or any other problems? If yes please try this solutions and let me and other know what happened. If you have any other problems, just share it, I will try to find a solution.

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