# Can't Upload Publication Icon

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/cant-upload-publication-icon/6136>\
**Category:** Developer help\
**Created:** [March 10, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/cant-upload-publication-icon/6136 "2019-03-10T04:00:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![svikashk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/svikashk/32/580_2.png) [@svikashk](https://forum.ghost.org/u/svikashk)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/cant-upload-publication-icon/6136/1 "2019-03-10T04:00:21Z")

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I’ve been trying to upload a publication icon but always seem to be getting an error:

1. Uploading a .ico throws

> Please select a valid image.

1. Uploading a .png throws

> Validation error, cannot upload image.

They are 100x100. Can’t really understand or figure what might be the issue here.

Any ideas? 🤔

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**Author:** ![naz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/naz/32/30666_2.png) [@naz](https://forum.ghost.org/u/naz)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/cant-upload-publication-icon/6136/2 "2019-03-11T02:28:19Z")

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Hi @svikashk! On which version of Ghost are you, what kind of environment are you running it in? If this is a local install from source please make sure to update to the latest and rebuild Ghost admin as there have been changes to how we handle images lately 😉

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**Author:** ![svikashk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/svikashk/32/580_2.png) [@svikashk](https://forum.ghost.org/u/svikashk)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/cant-upload-publication-icon/6136/3 "2019-03-11T09:39:22Z")

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Hey @naz. Should’ve mentioned this earlier…  
I’m currently on

- **Version:** 2.16.4
- **Environment:** production
- **Running on:** DigitalOcean’s one click install

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**Author:** ![Kevin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/kevin/32/32_2.png) [@Kevin](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Kevin)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/cant-upload-publication-icon/6136/4 "2019-03-11T09:44:44Z")

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@svikashk unfortunately the real error message is currently being hidden due to a change in server-side error messages that was missed in the admin client, tomorrow’s release will fix that.

In the meantime you have two options to see what the real error is:

1. open Chrome’s (or your browser of choice’s) web inspector before attempting the upload then inspect the failed network request. The real error will be in the `context` attribute.
2. view the server-side logs of your Ghost instance using the `ghost log` command

[https://docs.ghost.org/api/ghost-cli/log/](https://docs.ghost.org/api/ghost-cli/log/)

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**Author:** ![svikashk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/svikashk/32/580_2.png) [@svikashk](https://forum.ghost.org/u/svikashk)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/cant-upload-publication-icon/6136/5 "2019-03-11T09:55:33Z")

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Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply, @Kevin. 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/b/ba9ce5100b8bb264586f4f572545596b2ce3f081.png) [@system](https://forum.ghost.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/cant-upload-publication-icon/6136/6 "2019-03-25T10:04:10Z")

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