Title: problem uploading header image
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# problem uploading header image

 *  [BiggoCharley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/biggocharley/)
 * (@biggocharley)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-uploading-header-image-1/)
 * I have found a lot of incidences of this problem going back as far a six years.
   I have read every post I could find and tried all of the proposed solutions that
   seemed to relate to my problem.
    When I try to change the header image I get 
   the following error message: The uploaded file could not be moved to /home/httpd/
   vhosts/deltaforge.com/httpdocs/wordpress/wp-content/uploads. I have tried changing
   permissions to all different levels. The most liberal of which is 777 and which
   should allow uploading by the group. I have made sure that I am the owner of 
   the image file. I am able to upload manually to wp-content/uploads with FTP so
   I don’t think that this is a server issue. I’m about ready to give up and reinstall
   WP unless someone has a better idea. (which I hope is the case).

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 *  [JungleSpace.net](https://wordpress.org/support/users/junglespace/)
 * (@junglespace)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-uploading-header-image-1/#post-3160905)
 * WordPress uses the move_uploaded_file() function. In this case it is failing 
   at this portion.
 * Several error types can happen. Here’s the list.
 * [http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.errors.php](http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.errors.php)
 * Under the wp_handle_upload() function, you can use the print_r($_FILES) function
   to see the error. Place it after the move_uploaded_file() function is called 
   and call the die() function next.
 * > wp-admin/includes/file.php
 * Alternatively, you can install a 2nd WordPress to see whether it has the same
   issue.

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## Tags

 * [File Permissions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/file-permissions/)
 * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/)
 * [upload problem](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload-problem/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [JungleSpace.net](https://wordpress.org/support/users/junglespace/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-uploading-header-image-1/#post-3160905)
 * Status: not resolved

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