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Permision issues with uploading files

Oct 23rd, 2009

Hi,
I have created a script to upload files

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$filename = $_FILES['Filedata']['name'];	
 
$filetmpname = $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'];	
 
$fileType = $_FILES["Filedata"]["type"];
 
$fileSizeMB = ($_FILES["Filedata"]["size"] / 1024 / 1000);
 
//Irrelevant validation here
 
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'], $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/content/songs/file.mp3");
$filename = $_FILES['Filedata']['name'];	

$filetmpname = $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'];	

$fileType = $_FILES["Filedata"]["type"];

$fileSizeMB = ($_FILES["Filedata"]["size"] / 1024 / 1000);

//Irrelevant validation here

move_uploaded_file($_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'], $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/content/songs/file.mp3");

And that returns OK to the browser allong with my success message but the file doesn't exist, when I look in the sites error log i get

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[Fri Oct 23 09:53:44 2009] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] PHP Warning:  move_uploaded_file(Photo on 2009-10-09 at 22.51 #2.jpg) [<a href='function.move-uploaded-file'>function.move-uploaded-file</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/development/scripts/open/signup/uploadtest.php on line 25, referer: http://dev-env-1.samrudge.co.uk/account/main
[Fri Oct 23 09:53:44 2009] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] PHP Warning:  move_uploaded_file() [<a href='function.move-uploaded-file'>function.move-uploaded-file</a>]: Unable to move '/phptemp/phpTxmy2f' to 'Photo on 2009-10-09 at 22.51 #2.jpg' in /var/www/html/development/scripts/open/signup/uploadtest.php on line 25, referer: http://dev-env-1.samrudge.co.uk/account/main
[Fri Oct 23 09:53:44 2009] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] PHP Warning:  move_uploaded_file(Photo on 2009-10-09 at 22.51 #2.jpg) [<a href='function.move-uploaded-file'>function.move-uploaded-file</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/development/scripts/open/signup/uploadtest.php on line 25, referer: http://dev-env-1.samrudge.co.uk/account/main
[Fri Oct 23 09:53:44 2009] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] PHP Warning:  move_uploaded_file() [<a href='function.move-uploaded-file'>function.move-uploaded-file</a>]: Unable to move '/phptemp/phpTxmy2f' to 'Photo on 2009-10-09 at 22.51 #2.jpg' in /var/www/html/development/scripts/open/signup/uploadtest.php on line 25, referer: http://dev-env-1.samrudge.co.uk/account/main

/phptemp/ has CHMOD 777 and apache has read write access to the entire web directory

Whats wrong?
Thanx,
Sam

Last edited by samarudge; Oct 23rd, 2009 at 6:02 am.

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network18

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Oct 23rd, 2009

by the error logs it seems that your code is not able to access the file,check the permissions to that file.sometimes it might be the case that the file is permitted but the folder outside of it not , so check with that too.

Last edited by network18; Oct 23rd, 2009 at 6:08 am.

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