A little while ago I purchased a Nokia Lumia 920 with Windows Phone 8 (currently the Amber release). The phone itself is great, but I had a problem with the Windows Phone WordPress app, it wouldn’t upload or post any content that contained an image.
- Phone: Nokia Lumia 920
- OS: Windows Phone 8 (amber – Australia)
- Connectivity: WiFi and 3G/4G
- Problem: WordPress App won’t complete submission of a post or page that contains an image.
- Server: Xen VDS hosted on Amazon AWS with Amazon Linux (Amazon’s version of CentOS 6)
In case it’s not obvious, the WordPress blog I was experiencing the problem with is a self hosted installation. We can assume I installed it and set it up correctly 😉
(for sake of this post, I have replaced all references to the host with ‘mokonamodoki.com’).
Whenever I attempted to submit a page or post that contained an image, I would get the follow error message:
Media Upload Error
The remote server returned an error: NotFound
Yes, extremely helpful. I knew what the solution was immediately. Thank you, Microsoft!
I tried all sorts of tricks. PHP settings, Â Apache settings, and WordPress settings. Nothing worked. What frustrated me even more; was that the iOS app worked fine! Something I did notice, was that the iOS app uploads images separately, and not as part of the post content… this got me thinking.
Is the problem the Windows Phone WordPress app or is the problem the server?