I just had the same issue with a client’s website also hosted on GoDaddy. You won’t have success until you switch to a Linux server. It works now. My advice, is switch from GoDaddy to something like Bluehost You will avoid a lot of headaches. This was just the latest is a series of glitches in a WordPress install that should be simple.
There could be two different issues. First, make sure that the MIME type for that file has been defined in IIS. As for the step that solved my similar problem, this website‘s suggestion worked for me. So, add the following to your web.config:
<system.webServer>
<security>
<requestFiltering>
<requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="100000000" />
</requestFiltering>
</security>
</system.webServer>
First thing I suggest to check is picture size.
Go by Photo Dimensions, try a photo at 300×300 just to see if it works. If that works, try one at 900px wide. Then try over 1000px wide, and see if size is an issue first.
Seems the size does reduce when upgrading to a newer php version, so I am thinking it is the PHP Memory Limit. This is something that could be brought up with your host if you still want giant pics.
We upgraded php, and photo upload size ability got smaller. We were used to uploading these sizes, so thought it was a “real problem”.
Most themes can’t use anything over the theme width anyway, and large pictures do make a giant file for moving photo files later if you need to; or to back them up.
After reading every fix on the web, spending hours upon hours on this, this is all it took for me.
This is happening with us in June of 2011, WordPress 3.1.3, We upgraded our php to 5.2 to be ready for WP 3.2.
I have seen this has been a longstanding problem over the years, as everything I have been reading is Old on this subject.
I believe it is an ongoing problem and size will trigger the HTTP Error while crunching and freezes.
Good Luck!
A follow up to the above post about html error and photo crunching:
Got a response back from my host, here is what it said:
From Host: “We can raise the memory limits and upload max sizes. What would you like to raise them to?”
Think this could solve a lot of problems for everyone, if you are trying to upload anything large, such as the video that was quoted as problematic, above.
Hope this helps as one alternative. Too large for host limits? I thought it was a Server or WordPress problem too! Again, Good Luck!!!
PS: I am on Apache/Linux/Fedora/Plesk. This goes for Apache too!
