php... unable to upload files.

Factual Questions
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I am wondering if anyone can give me some advice on what to check/look at to solve the following problem.

I had an image uploader which once worked… then my site became unusable because a trial period expired.

Then I paid up and got my site back (but my host company are complete tools and haven’t done it properly… so I eventually got it sorted myself by altering the permissions on the .htaccess file)

but now that I’ve got the site ‘back’ I still have a few problems with certain parts.

I have an image uploader which now produces the following error…

"Uploading file 1191543704997.jpg…
Warning: move_uploaded_file(1191543704997.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/<r>/public_html/photos/upload_multiple.php on line 60

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move ‘/tmp/phprtJ89G’ to ‘1191543704997.jpg’ in /home/<r>/public_html/photos/upload_multiple.php on line 60
There was an error uploading the file!"

I have played about with the permissions on the tmp folder, to no avail.

eta: ‘<r>’ is meaninglesss… I just replaced my site username with that for security purposes.

2

I don’t know php :frowning: but could it be a server problem, not a php or OS file permissions issue? Some servers restrict where files may be placed as a security measure.

3

If it is then it’s a new thing on my server. The code worked before my trial period ran out.

if it helps anyone here’s the code on line 60…

"if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES[‘file’.i]['tmp_name'], basename( _FILES[‘file’.$i][‘name’]))) "

4

Permissions on the folder that the file is being moved into need to be set to 777.
Probably the photos diretory.

5

DUDE! That worked. Thanks :slight_smile:

I’ts a simple answer too. I can’t believe I didn’t try it. I was assuming there was something wrong with the source folder. It never occured to me there might be something wrong with the permissions onthe destination folder.

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From the error msg and small snippet of code, it looks like the upload script uploads to /tmp/phprtJ89G and then moves the file ‘elsewhere’. It looks like you don’t have permission to the ‘elsewhere’. If basename($_FILES[‘file’.$i][‘name’]) resolves to just ‘1191543704997.jpg’ then it’s attempting to move it to where the script is executing from, /home/<r>/public_html/photos/. You’ll need to give the user running the webserver (if it’s a generic apache install, for example, the user is ‘apache’) permission to write to that folder.

Edit: looks like I was beat to the punch. Be warned though, 777 is essentially giving anybody and everybody full permission to that folder. You might want to tailor it back a bit.