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Uploading any kind of file fails - loops back to empty upload form

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.8 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.67-community
 * Installed Extensions:
 * ParserFunctions version: 1.1.1 (stable)
 * BoardVote version: r37462 (stable)
 * MultipleUpload version: 1.0 (stable)
 * Google Maps Extension version: 0.9.3) (beta)

I am having problems using the MediaWiki upload feature. The upload form will load fine, which I fill in with the location of a image or other allowed file type plus write a small description beneath.

The problems begin when I press the upload button, because the upload page will load up again with all fields blank. Attempting a refresh at this point in time would ask if I wanted to resend the post/get data generated from the form on the previous page.. so something is coming out of the form. I then checked the upload log, and there was no records of any uploaded files. I checked the location where the images should have been stored via FTP according to LocalSettings.php and the folder remained empty, aside from the "README" file which was there right from the word go. And yes, the folder had the correct CHMOD permissions.

I enabled error reporting via php.ini and repeated the above steps however no issues were reported either before or after the form's "upload file" button was pressed. (I hard refreshed and attempted uploading again to make sure it wasn't a cache problem too)

Also, I went ahead and turned off the extensions that were installed to check if they were causing the problem before running the above steps yet again. This wasn't the case.

Changing the skin I was using made no difference to the problem. I also tried setting $wgHashedUploadDirectory to false to see if this could have been the cause. No luck, though.

As a last resort I set $wgAllowCopyUploads to true, uploaded a file via FTP into a public directory and then brought it into the wiki that way.. again, no luck at all as it just reloaded the upload form blank.

Is anybody able to shed some light on this problem?

—Marquisite 11:56, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Uploading is disabled and whatever I do I can't set it to on

 * MediaWiki version: 1.12.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 4.0.24
 * URL:

When logged in as WikiSysop (the only user on the system so far) and I try and upload an image in my Wiki (version 1.12.0) I get the following message:-

"File uploads are disabled on Systems."

I have followed the instructions at:-

mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads

I have confirmed the following settings:-

file_uploads = On

Check Apache aliases - I have not been able to check, would this cause the above message?

www.mydomain.com/wiki/images is set to 755 I have also tried 777

Safe Mode is off

$wgEnableUploads = true;

As far as I can see there are no permissions set in LocalSettings.php in fact no variables at all with the text "permissions" in them.

$wgFileExtensions =	array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg' );

upload_max_filesize is 8Mb

—Southcot 08:23, 15 January 2009 (UTC)