Comments on: Image upload failure in WordPress http://www.mikeafford.com/blog/2008/10/image-upload-failure-in-wordpress/ Mike Afford is a Graphic Designer for TV and Web based in Leitrim, Ireland. Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:07:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John http://www.mikeafford.com/blog/2008/10/image-upload-failure-in-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-65 John Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:43:43 +0000 http://www.mikeafford.com/blog/?p=18#comment-65 Well I tried a few things all at once and one of them worked! Thanks very much for your help, it may have been the secret to success. All the best, John Well I tried a few things all at once and one of them worked! Thanks very much for your help, it may have been the secret to success. All the best, John

]]> By: Mike http://www.mikeafford.com/blog/2008/10/image-upload-failure-in-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Mike Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:24:20 +0000 http://www.mikeafford.com/blog/?p=18#comment-57 Hi John, Although it says on the Supanames control panel that changes to the php upload_tmp_dir will take up to 24 hours, I was told by Supanames support that it shouldn't take more than an hour at most these days. As I recall it was within the hour for sure. I've just checked my control panel - the other thing I've done in PHP settings is set the 'session_save_path' to /tmp also. Try that, if you're still getting the first 'Failed to write' message then it might be worth double checking that the tmp directory is in the root of your space and has the right permissions? Let me know how you get on. Good luck! Mike Hi John,
Although it says on the Supanames control panel that changes to the php upload_tmp_dir will take up to 24 hours, I was told by Supanames support that it shouldn’t take more than an hour at most these days. As I recall it was within the hour for sure.

I’ve just checked my control panel – the other thing I’ve done in PHP settings is set the ’session_save_path’ to /tmp also.

Try that, if you’re still getting the first ‘Failed to write’ message then it might be worth double checking that the tmp directory is in the root of your space and has the right permissions?
Let me know how you get on.

Good luck!
Mike

]]> By: John http://www.mikeafford.com/blog/2008/10/image-upload-failure-in-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-54 John Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:25:17 +0000 http://www.mikeafford.com/blog/?p=18#comment-54 Mike You seem to have had the exact same troubles that I did about a year ago when I created my site on a supanames server. At the time I managed to get it sorted, but now that I'm doing another site, I can't for the life of me remember how I solved it. Yours is the only post I've come across that seems to address the supanames specific issue, but I'm still not getting beyond the 'Failed to write to disk' message. Supanames reckoned it would take up to 12 hours for the tmp file to work, but I'm beyond that now and nothing has changed. How long did it take between you making the tmp directory and then getting the new error message? Thanks John Mike

You seem to have had the exact same troubles that I did about a year ago when I created my site on a supanames server. At the time I managed to get it sorted, but now that I’m doing another site, I can’t for the life of me remember how I solved it. Yours is the only post I’ve come across that seems to address the supanames specific issue, but I’m still not getting beyond the ‘Failed to write to disk’ message. Supanames reckoned it would take up to 12 hours for the tmp file to work, but I’m beyond that now and nothing has changed. How long did it take between you making the tmp directory and then getting the new error message?

Thanks
John

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