upload file path question

[justAnoob]

I am having trouble uploading a picture to a directory on my server. First off, i have 2 domain names, domain 1 and domain 2

With domain 1 i have the exact same upload script that I am trying to make work with domain 2. Domain 1 works great. The problem with domain 2 is it cannot find the directory that i wish to upload the image to.

 

$newname="userimages/trackimages/".$image_name;

 

it is telling me that the directory does not exist. I know it is there and yes I did make the directory writable. Anyone know what is going on?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The actual error message and the code would help.

 

There are at least a half-dozen different things that could go wrong with an upload script or with a directory path that could cause an error that would look like it is a path problem.

 

Are you sure that relative to the main script that is running that the userimages/trackimages/ path exists with that spelling and capitalization (assuming you are on an operating system that is case sensitive)?

[justAnoob]

yes, i'll post up some code after work.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Additional to the above reply -

 

Are you also sure that $image_name does not contain any / characters that when combined with userimages/trackimages/ produces a path that does not exist.

[justAnoob]

Here is the upload script. Like I said, on my other site it works just fine. Just on this site, it will not work.

Here is on of the errors I'm getting.

copy(userimages/trackimages/1264460369.jpg) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory (blah blah) line 57

 

<?php
// this is my text field on my upload page
// <input name="image" class="textbox" type="file" id="image" size="40" input="input" />
// yes, it is inside of a form with the right actions



session_start();
include "connection.php";

$track_name = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['track_name']);
$description = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['description']);
$category = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['category']);
$created_on = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['created_on']);

define ("MAX_SIZE","1000");
function getExtension($str)
{
$i = strrpos($str,".");
if (!$i)
{
	return "";
}
$l = strlen($str) - $i;
$ext = substr($str,$i+1,$l);
return $ext;
}

$errors=0;
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$image=$_FILES['image']['name'];
if($image) 
{

	$filename = stripslashes($_FILES['image']['name']);
	$extension = getExtension($filename);
	$extension = strtolower($extension);
	if (($extension != "jpg") && ($extension != "jpeg"))
	{
		echo 'error';
		$errors=1;
		exit();

	}
	else
	{
		$size=filesize($_FILES['image']['tmp_name']);
		if ($size > MAX_SIZE*1024)
		{
			echo 'error';
			$errors=1;
			exit();
		}

		$tname = time();
$image_name=$tname.'.'.$extension;
$newname="mylahstone/trackimages/".$image_name;  // LINE 57
$copied = copy($_FILES['image']['tmp_name'], $newname);

$image_thumb=$tname.'-thumb.'.$extension;
$newthumbname="mylahstone/trackimages/".$image_thumb;

$width = 100;
$height = 100;

list($width_orig, $height_orig) = getimagesize($newname);

$ratio_orig = $width_orig/$height_orig;

if ($width/$height > $ratio_orig) {
   $width = $height*$ratio_orig;
} else {
  $height = $width/$ratio_orig;
}

$image_p = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg($newname);
imagecopyresampled($image_p, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, $width_orig, $height_orig);

imagejpeg($image_p, $newthumbname, 100);
imagedestroy($image);
imagedestroy($image_p);


		if (!$copied)
		{
			echo 'error';
			$errors=1;
			exit();

		}

	}
}
}

// if everything is good, post new item for the user
$mysqlcategory = $category;
$imgpath = $newname;
$thumb = $newthumbname;
$findit = $_SESSION['who'];
$result=mysql_query("SELECT id FROM members WHERE username = '$findit'");
$row=mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$user_id = $row['id'];
$sql = "INSERT INTO MY_TABLE(track_name, description, imgpath, thumb, category, user_id, created_on)VALUES('$track_name','$description', '$imgpath', '$thumb', '$mysqlcategory', '$user_id', '$created_on')";
mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
// go to confirmation page if upload is completed.
if(isset($_POST['submit']) && !$errors)
{
unset($_SESSION['toobig']);
unset($_SESSION['badformat']);
unset($_SESSION['notcopy']);
header("location: http://www.MYSITE.com/index.php");
exit();
} 
mysql_close();
?>

[justAnoob]

the error is actually the directory  mylahstone/trackimages/xxxxxx.jpg

 

I changed that.

[justAnoob]

so the actual directory where the images should go is

mylahstone/trackimages

the directory is there on my server and the permissions are set to be writable.

I'm very confused here.

[jamiet757]

try using ../mylahstone/trackimages/ instead of mylahstone/trackimages/

[justAnoob]

hey, that did the trick. what exactly does the ".." mean?

[jamiet757]

I believe it means the root directory of the site, so if you are accessing a file in www.domain.com/folder/folder2 and need to pull a file from /folder, you need to put ../folder, otherwise it will look for /folder in /folder2. If that makes any sense at all.

[justAnoob]

thanks for all the help. I'll do some research tomorrow. thanks again.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Are you sure that relative to the main script that is running that the userimages/trackimages/ path exists ...

 

The path you were originally specifying is relative to the currently running script, as already suggested that you confirm.

 

By using a leading ../ you are specifying a starting path one level closer to the disk root than the current script (this may or may not be the domain root of the site.)