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July 7th, 2008

HTTP Error Wordpress 2.5 Image Upload on Hostgator

So after you sign up for a Hostgator account and use the code ‘JURY’ to get your first month for a penny, you go install the latest version of Wordpress and find that you have an issue with the image upload feature.  Here’s how you fix that.

Open your favorite FTP client and download the .htaccess file in your www/ folder.  Open that in your favorite text editor (don’t have one - try Crimson Editor) and add the following to the very bottom of the file.

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>

That should be the solution if you have an HTTP errror with Wordpress 2.5 on Hostgator. Now enjoy the awesomeness of multiple image file uploads!

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