Title: Error Uploading: Plugin does not recognize ZIP file
Last modified: March 26, 2018

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# Error Uploading: Plugin does not recognize ZIP file

 *  Resolved [talkstory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talkstory/)
 * (@talkstory)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-plugin-does-not-recognize-zip-file/)
 * I’m trying to upload a new plugin (4.1MB) and it stops at 2MB. The error message
   is:
 * “Upload error (code -200) : HTTP Error. (make sure that you were trying to upload
   a zip file”

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 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-plugin-does-not-recognize-zip-file/#post-10117293)
 * 2MB is usually the chunk size, so that means it failed after the first chunk.
   The cause of that will almost certainly be that the server’s file permissions
   either don’t allow uploading of files to the temporary folder, which is where
   chunks are assembled. Consulting the server’s PHP error log would help to confirm
   that.
 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-plugin-does-not-recognize-zip-file/#post-10117298)
 * Without this plugin, is it definitely file size issues that are stopping you 
   from uploading a 4.1MB plugin? If it’s permission issues, then this plugin won’t
   help.
 *  Thread Starter [talkstory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talkstory/)
 * (@talkstory)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-plugin-does-not-recognize-zip-file/#post-10117370)
 * Without the plugin the only message I received was regarding file size. I’ll 
   check with the client and see if they have additional permissions for uploading.
 * Thanks for the quick response!
 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-plugin-does-not-recognize-zip-file/#post-10117424)
 * Are you able to successfully upload smaller plugins (without this plugin)? I 
   think PHP will give the error about a file being too large before it writes it
   out to a temporary file, so that doesn’t necessarily reveal whether there’s also
   a permissions problem or not.
 *  [mvangewp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mvangewp/)
 * (@mvangewp)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-plugin-does-not-recognize-zip-file/#post-10117905)
 * I had the same issue with a site hosted on nginx (as opposed to Apache) server.
 * Found the following link very useful to resolve the issue:
 * [https://websistent.com/fix-client-intended-to-send-too-large-body-nginx-error/](https://websistent.com/fix-client-intended-to-send-too-large-body-nginx-error/)
 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-plugin-does-not-recognize-zip-file/#post-10118749)
 * Those look like two different things to me.
 *  [mvangewp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mvangewp/)
 * (@mvangewp)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-plugin-does-not-recognize-zip-file/#post-10120574)
 * David, may be, but I was getting the same error message. Just sharing in case
   it’s helpful. Maybe off base. Thanks for the great plugin!
 *  Thread Starter [talkstory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talkstory/)
 * (@talkstory)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-plugin-does-not-recognize-zip-file/#post-10121246)
 * The client decided to give us FTP access, so I didn’t end up troubleshooting 
   with smaller plugins.

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