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I have a blog @ http://nexus.sc2mx.com/ that I just created. I also created an upload folder under /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-content/uploads and set it's permissions to 755.

If I upload manually via FTP and then link to the file directly, it works, but when I try to upload files from the Wordpress Control Panel, I get: "Add media files from your computer HTTP error."

I need to get that working because I will be handing over the blog to someone else and I don't want to give him/her direct access to my server files.

I googled the error but I didn't find a solution.

asked Jun 19 '11 at 02:39

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RommelTJ
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Do the logs show more info? They are located in ~/logs/frontend/

(Jun 19 '11 at 02:46) johns ♦♦ johns's gravatar image 
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[Sun Jun 19 17:18:27 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/favicon.ico
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:30 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/favicon.ico
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:36 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/favicon.ico
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:42 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/favicon.ico
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:45 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-admin/http:, referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:45 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-admin/http:, referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:45 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-admin/http:, referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:45 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-admin/http:, referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:45 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-admin/http:, referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:45 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-admin/http:, referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:45 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-admin/http:, referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:45 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-admin/http:, referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:45 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-admin/http:, referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:45 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-admin/http:, referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:45 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-admin/http:, referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:45 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-admin/http:, referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:45 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/favicon.ico
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:49 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/favicon.ico
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:49 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-admin/http:, referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-includes/js/swfupload/swfupload.swf?preventswfcaching=1308521928945
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:57 2011] [warn] [client 201.170.35.152] Not GET request: 2.
[Sun Jun 19 17:18:57 2011] [error] [client 201.170.35.152] File does not exist: /home/romri/webapps/nexus/wp-admin/http:
[Sun Jun 19 17:19:45 2011] [warn] [client 201.170.35.152] Not GET request: 2., referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:20:45 2011] [warn] [client 201.170.35.152] Not GET request: 2., referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:21:45 2011] [warn] [client 201.170.35.152] Not GET request: 2., referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
[Sun Jun 19 17:22:45 2011] [warn] [client 201.170.35.152] Not GET request: 2., referer: http://nexus.sc2mx.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit
(Jun 19 '11 at 17:24) RommelTJ RommelTJ's gravatar image

See below.

(Jun 19 '11 at 17:24) RommelTJ RommelTJ's gravatar image
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That "http:" bit looked suspicious, so I checked your siteurl and home settings in your wp_options database table. They were both set to use "http:" instead of "http://nexus.sc2mx.com", so I set them to the correct value for you.

I think that should fix the problem - if it doesn't, then please open a support ticket and we'll try to take a closer look.

answered Jun 19 '11 at 17:44

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Hi Sean. That seems to work. Thank you.

(Jun 20 '11 at 14:55) RommelTJ RommelTJ's gravatar image

You're very welcome!

(Jun 20 '11 at 14:58) seanf ♦♦ seanf's gravatar image

Just wanted to mention that I had the same issue from a fresh WP install on webfaction. There must be something funny going on with the default database that's put in.

(Jan 05 at 19:58) haz haz's gravatar image

Our control panel edits the site_url when you create a new website record and tried to fetch the site_url from that, if it fails than this happens and it has to be reset. It does not appear to be happening to all WordPress installs currently.

(Jan 05 at 21:11) johns ♦♦ johns's gravatar image
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