This was the other wordpress 2.5 issue I had.

This was on a live server and not local. I tried to upload an image and the image crunched ok, but I got this message when it was done. I think it has to do with write permissions but the solution I found was to add this to your .htaccess file.

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

That seemed to fix the upload issue but the next issue I had was when I tried to actually insert the image into the post, all I got was a blank screen from the media page.

After a few times of the blank screen I restarted firefox and now everything worked fine.

I guess the first problem affected the http state of the browser or window or something and the restart just cleared it all up.

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As I said I am slowly moving a few of my blogs to Wordpress 2.5. I have run across a few issues and one was a blank screen when I was trying to install Wordpress. I checked the config file and all was good with that. I figured it had to be in the php.ini. That is usually where things go awry when installing for the first time.

I searched around a bit and found a solution that said log_errors had to be on.

I went to php.ini and changed log_errors = off to log_errors = on.

I then went back and deleted all the tables from my fresh install (it make it that far) and ran the installer again and that fixed my blank screen problem.

Did I mention this was a local install? All of my installs on real servers didn’t have this issues because they probably all have log_errors = on already.