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How to upload .jar file in Wordpress?

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  • Why are image uploads behaving so strangely on my Wordpress MU installation? Wordpress MU seems finicky compared to the regular Wordpress and I'm glad it's being phased out. Nevertheless, right now I am trying to fix an urgent problem involving a broken Media Library. Specifically, on the Post screen, the "insert images" and "insert video" buttons have vanished. And then when I try to upload stuff to the Media Library, I receive a bogus security error (Wordpress tells me that the file types are forbidden even when they are the most generic file types imaginable.) Any idea what might cause this to happen? I thought it might be an .htaccess issue but I'm using the generic .htaccess file that comes with the installation (htaccess.dist.) Any help much appreciated.

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    Check the permissions on your uploads folder.

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Thanks. Check to see if it's too permissive, or too strict?

thelastenglishmajor

Ok. I'm not an MU (or any) expert but I have been making my own errors in wordpress uploads lately. You want to have your uploads permissions set to at least 755. To check your permissions, open your ftp program, log on to your site, right click your uploads folder and look at 'file permissions' (firefox). This will bring up a series of check boxes and some numbers in a 'numeric value' box. Make that number 755. And then refresh all browsers/cache/beers and try again. If your images are still not uploading, change the number to 777 and try again. Still not working? Sorry, no other advice but to reinstall the MU. Don't forget to change the numbers back to at least 755 for security purposes I make no guarantees express or implied that there is any value in the advice I have offered. Good luck.

Kerasia

Hmm. Might have to reinstall. So I can just stick new WPMU core files in there?

thelastenglishmajor

Also check the amount of space allotted to images in the upload folders and see if any blogs have exceeded that. I didn't get quite the errors you're getting when one of the blogs I admin had exceeded that, but the error I did get was sufficiently vague and uninformative to be of no use whatsoever in helping me figure out the problem, until I stumbled on it by accident.

telophase

Hiya! I'm the andrea_r all over the wordpressmu help forums. ;) MU has an allowed file types filter. check in the Site Admin -> Options page. there's a text box squirreled in there. That's the short answer. The longer answer is even with the merge, functionality like this is still there. They just rolled it in, they didn't change much. If anyone has any other questions about it, let me know.

andrea_r

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