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Files dragged into WordPress Media Library don't show up. 500 internal server error
Hello. I have WordPress installed on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine running IIS 8.5. After I installed WordPress and began creating a website I was able to drag all my images and other media files into the Media Library. It worked fine. But now when I drag the files to the Medial Library they don't show up on my pages and when I try to navigate to the file using the url that goes directly to it I get the 500 - Internal server error. I noticed that WordPress changed the file location. I don't know why. But when I originally installed it, it created a file structure for the images something like this (C:\SocialSkillsGroupClini
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There is no answer for this question. I'm still having the same problem.
You haven't responded to the suggestion of looking in the error log though; did you do that? We can only help you find a solution when you respond to questions/suggestions. Would you like the question re-opened? I think that's the right thing to do given you haven't got a solution yet.
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Hello @Terry Woods. I'm sorry for not responding. Thanks for following up. I had actually given up on this one and started copying and hard coding my media myself instead of using WordPress's interface. Yes. I think I looked at the logs that you were talking about. I went into Event Viewer and looked at the Application, Security, Setup, and System logs under the Windows logs folder.
Ok, well if you'd like to look into it further, do let us know.
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Great. I'm sure I will. Should I start a new thread when I do? Or can I reopen this question?
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Ok Thanks. I'll wait till I create another WordPress instance and begin uploading media. Thanks for your help and advice.
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Yes. I definitely agree with you on the permissions thing. I did go in and look at the folder permissions but I didn't see anything different. Also I tried to make the same permissions on the entire uploads folders so all folders contained in it would have those permissions but I obviously didn't do that right either. The question now is how do I configure the folders to give permission to WordPress or whatever is pulling from them?