Title: Problem with adding image Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Problem with adding image * [jamesz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesz/) * (@jamesz) * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-adding-image/) * Hi, * In wp-admin/post-new.php, I can’t upload an image using the flash or browser uploader. * If I create the post without an image, and then go and edit the post, I can upload an image with no problems using either flash or browser uploader. * If I make a post with [posterous](http://posterous.com/), the image is added with no problem. * I’ve tried disabling plugins, using the default theme and reuploading the wp- admin folder. * I’ve tried with multiple browsers on multiple OS’s with a whole range of images. * Now, to get more specific about my install. My initial install was with WordPress 2.7.x, no updates have managed to fix it so far and I’m now on 2.8.4 * I’m using: ‘Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard Edition, Service Pack 2’ as a server. PHP 5.2.9 & MySQL 5.?.? * Using [fiddler2](http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/), and google chrome 7 the flash uploader, i get a 500 error, this is what is being returned: * ``` HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:42:41 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9-1 Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT Last-Modified: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:42:41 GMT Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0 Pragma: no-cache Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 1318 WordPress Failure Notice

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Please try again.

``` * Using the browser uploader I get a 200 response, but still no image.. the repsonse is a whole heap of garbled characters which I assume is the jpg. * I’m absolutely stumped. Any ideas? Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [Josh Leuze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jleuze/) * (@jleuze) * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-adding-image/#post-1200537) * Have you ever completely reinstalled WordPress aside from your wp-contents folder, or just the wp-admin folder? * In theory WordPress runs just dandy on a Windows server, but to be honest I’d at least try to test a copy of your site on a Linux server. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it worked fine on Linux 😉 * Thread Starter [jamesz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesz/) * (@jamesz) * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-adding-image/#post-1200947) * I haven’t tried reinstalling it and I was hoping not to have to go that far. * I wish it was on Linux, but unfortunately I’m stuck with a windows server. * I’ve just installed another fresh site with 2.8.4 and have the same problem, so I assume it’s related to some server setting. * :'( Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Problem with adding image’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [add new post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/add-new-post/) * [upload error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload-error/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [jamesz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesz/) * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-adding-image/#post-1200947) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics