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Yep, I've searched, and nobody's touched my specific spin on this problem yet, so here I go:

When I try to attach a valid image to my article, I get this error:

Mime type, , or extension of blah.jpg not in list of allowed types.

There is no "invalid" mime type listed in the error.

It doesn't matter which image I use, the image type/extension, or apparently which version of story.php or usersettings.php I use (my slightly tweaked versions versus the distribution version). After reading through some of the previous "mime type error" posts, I checked everything that was suggested in them...stuff on my end appears kosher.

I'm running GeekLog 1.3.10 at the following URL: http://blog.lunaclick.net

I posted one story with successful attachments last week, and whatever changed did so in the past 7 days -- 5 of which I spent out of town and away from my 'puter. I tried searching my local drive for files modified since then, but I'm not seeing anything that would cause problems when I compare the edited versions with the original ones.

I did install the GL Forum after that successful attachment-ful post, but I decided not to use it and just disabled it. Thinking that might somehow (miraculously) be the problem, I uninstalled it completely, but no change.

Any thoughts?

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"That's because it's -fly soup-, sir..."

Have you tried using another browser or even another computer?

The mime type has to be sent by the browser. You or some software may have changed something in your local setup.

bye, Dirk

I tried it just now with Netscape 7.1 on my PC, and again with hubby's PC using IE 6 (which is what I normally use). I got the same error both times. There were no updates made between the December 15 security/critical updates released by Microsoft and yesterday, and as I said, it worked fine a week ago.

Where in my local settings can I double check that everything is correct? Any other suggestions?

Thanks, Dirk!

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"That's because it's -fly soup-, sir..."

I found out what the problem was...turns out my site host turned off the generic /tmp directory on their servers for PHP file uploads.

I generated a custom php.ini, correcting the file upload path as instructed by my site host, and the problem is gone!

Thanks for your help, Dirk.

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"That's because it's -fly soup-, sir..."

I have same problem