Upload File Error

[Northern Flame]

I want users of my website to be able to submit songs or images to me,

so i created an upload form but the script that processes it gives me an

error message,

 

heres the error message

Warning: move_uploaded_file(pending/image/a.JPG): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /my_path/download/thanks.php on line 19

Warning: move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move '/tmp/phphaMD5R' to 'pending/image/a.JPG' in /my_path/download/thanks.php on line 19

 

Heres the script

 

<?php
$type = $_POST['type'];

if($type == 'song'){
$t_path = 'pending/song/';
}
elseif($type == 'image'){
$t_path = 'pending/image/';
} else{
$t_path = 'pending/';
}


$t_path = $t_path . basename( $_FILES['file']['name']);

include('includes/headernf.php');

echo '<div id=body>';
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $t_path)){
echo "     The ".$type." ".basename($_FILES['file']['name'])." has been uploaded! 
Thank you for contributing to this site!";
} else{
echo "     Their was an error when uploading your ".$type.". It is 
possible that the file was too big. Please try again or <a href='/contact.php'>
contact us</a>.";
}
echo '</div>';
?>

[teng84]

this is always seems to be the prob i guess we have to have something like this on top of this board

 

now the prob is that the path is not correct

 

it is stated here No such file or directory in /my_path/download/thanks.php on line 19

 

now echo your path and check if that is really what your trying to access

[Northern Flame]

do you mean the entire path starting from the root,

or just the domain leading to the directory where i want it all moved?

[teng84]

$t_path  i guess thats only u need to echo

[SirChick]

ignore i just misread what you were asking

[Northern Flame]

it says that the directory does not exist

[teng84]

ok i guess try this its from w3school very cool and basic

 

<?php
if (($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/gif")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/pjpeg")
&& ($_FILES["file"]["size"] < 20000))
  {
  if ($_FILES["file"]["error"] > 0)
    {
    echo "Return Code: " . $_FILES["file"]["error"] . "<br />";
    }
  else
    {
    echo "Upload: " . $_FILES["file"]["name"] . "<br />";
    echo "Type: " . $_FILES["file"]["type"] . "<br />";
    echo "Size: " . ($_FILES["file"]["size"] / 1024) . " Kb<br />";
    echo "Temp file: " . $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"] . "<br />";

    if (file_exists("upload/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"]))
      {
      echo $_FILES["file"]["name"] . " already exists. ";
      }
    else
      {
      move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"],
      "upload/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"]);
      echo "Stored in: " . "upload/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"];
      }
    }
  }
else
  {
  echo "Invalid file";
  }

 

it says that the directory does not exist  this means again the path is incorrect

[Northern Flame]

alright then,

let me customize it to fit my needs,

test it out,

and report back the results,

thanks 

[climbjm]

Check to make sure that your File that is executing the script has the proper permissions and the folder that you are writing the file to has the correct permissions.

 

When I don't have the permissions set correctly or assigned to the wrong group, I often get that error message (or something almost identical to it).

[Northern Flame]

alright i told me it was uploaded to a temporary folder,

but once again,

error message:

 

Warning: move_uploaded_file(upload/nf.gif): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /my_path/download/thanks.php on line 25

 

Warning: move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move '/tmp/phpmfDVem' to 'upload/nf.gif' in /my_path/download/thanks.php on line 25

Stored in: pending/nf.gif

 

and it was never stored in the folder "pending/"

[teng84]

whaosssss!!!!

 

look

move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"],"upload/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"]);

"upload/" is the folder or the dir

$_FILES["file"]["name"] the name of the file you are uploading

 

in your case you dont change this upload/ as your own dir

[Northern Flame]

oh, haha,

i only saw two "upload/"

in the script,

i didnt notice the third one 

[Northern Flame]

once again  :'(  :-\ 

 

Warning: move_uploaded_file(pending/nf.gif): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /my_path/download/thanks.php on line 25

 

Warning: move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move '/tmp/phplnee6o' to 'pending/nf.gif' in /my_path/download/thanks.php on line 25

 

[teng84]

LOL HAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAA your funny any way wait ill think of better way to see your prob

[Northern Flame]

lol alright thanks

[teng84]

ok tell me from what folder is this script ? is the image folder  also inside this folder

 

or the file is in your root dir and

pending/image/ this mean that image is inside pending folder ?

[Northern Flame]

mysite.com/download/script.php

i want them entered to

mysite.com/download/pending/

[teng84]

move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"],"pending/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"]);

this should work if not try to put the whole path or

 

can you show me your site to see the error

[teng84]

http://w3schools.com/php/php_file_upload.asp

[climbjm]

When I lower the permissions on the folder that I am writing too, I get errors just like you are showing.

 

Do you have access to your servers shell?

I really think you have a permissions not set correctly on your pending folder.

 

If you have access to a shell, type...

sudo chmod 0777 /FULLPATH/pending/

 

example... my upload folder for my website is located here:

/var/www/upload/

so I would chmod my folder like this...

sudo chmod 0777 /var/www/upload

 

Once you get your permissions fixed and ruled out, then you can tighten your permissions to increase security.

 

* sudo means you are basically running as a super user.

* the chmod part tells the computer you want to change the permissions of the file in regards to  read, write and execute.

* the 0777 basically makes it so that everyone can read/write/execute (full permissions).

* Last but not least you give the file or the folder you want to apply the permissions to.

 

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SHELL ACCESS TO YOUR SERVER...

You can actually write a PHP script to do this for you.  It goes something like this...

 

Example from http://us3.php.net/chmod

<?php
chmod("/somedir/somefile", 755);   // decimal; probably incorrect
chmod("/somedir/somefile", "u+rwx,go+rx"); // string; incorrect
chmod("/somedir/somefile", 0755);  // octal; correct value of mode
?> 

 

LAST BUT NOT LEAST...

I promise I am almost done...

Here is another great tutorial about creating scripts to upload files.

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.php

 

As said in the tutorial, when a file is uploaded to your server... it is there only temporarily until the script finishes executing.  Once the script finishes (which can be just milliseconds to execute) it destroys those temporary files.  This is why when you looked in the folder, you did not see the file.  This is actually why you are 'copying' the temp file, into a different folder.  That way when the script finishes and deletes the temp file, you still have a copy else where .