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# Uploading images to Wordpress = FAIL?
- URL: https://tim.sodhis.org/uploading-images-to-wordpress-fail/
- Published: 2009-04-02T11:47:42.000Z
- Updated: 2009-04-02T11:50:07.000Z
- Author: Tim Sodhi
- Tags: #wordpress, #Import 2026-01-11 22:49

From the start, whenever I tried to upload a larger file to WordPress from an external editor, I always ran into an “500 Internal Server Error”. Just how many images etc did I have to scale down because of this, I alone know. I decided to get off my bum and research this a bit, and found that it is a problem prevalent with some web hosts, where the services tend to revert back to PHP4 by default. The fix is simple. Add the following to your *.htaccess*

> AddType x-mapp-php5 .php  
> AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

And Bob’s your chum.