Wordpress uploading image hangs

Posted February 13, 2013

I’ve just set up LEMP on a new droplet following some tutorials from DO. After that I have set up a wordpress, everything works fine except for image (media) uploading. The upload page just hangs for several minutes and ends up throwing this:

Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): The connection was reset.

I’ve tried changing permission to both 755 and even 777 but still not working, any ideas ?

phatograph

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Moisey Uretsky • February 16, 2013

You may want to check max execution time as well and also try uploading a very small image say 1kb just to minimize variables. <br> <br>If a 1kb fails then you know its not a file size limit or execution problem but instead something else.

phatograph • February 13, 2013

Thanks @Olaf that crosses my mind too. @kamal hmm I don’t think so because the image is just ~100k.

Kamal Nasser • February 13, 2013

This probably means that the image you are uploading is larger than PHP’s maximum upload size. http://css-tricks.com/snippets/php/increase-maximum-php-upload-size/

Olaf Lederer • February 13, 2013

I tried to install nginx for my Wordpress site too, but I went back to a virtual host setup with apache and suphp. This works the best for my on more than 5 servers. I’ve follow the steps from this tutorial: <br>http://www.web-development-blog.com/archives/how-to-install-a-linux-web-server-ubuntu/

phatograph • February 13, 2013

PS. I’m using Ubuntu 12.04

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