hi, ive used this method many times before to upload pictures to a folder on my remote host but this time it aint wrkin!

this is the error i get: -
Warning: Unable to create 'upload_files/tentphoto2.jpg': Permission denied in /www.classicjoineryweb.co.uk/upload.php on line 75
{line 74,75,76 shown below)


Warning: Unable to move '/tmp/phpBvZc1i' to 'upload_files/tentphoto2.jpg' in /www.classicjoineryweb.co.uk/upload.php on line 75
Somthing is wrong with uploading a file.

heres the lines of upload code i use: -

<?php
$site_name = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$url_dir = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$url_this = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

$upload_dir = "upload_files/";
$upload_url = $url_dir."/upload_files/";
$message ="";

//create upload_files directory if not exist
//If it does not work, create on your own and change permission.
if (!is_dir("upload_files")) {
    die ("upload_files directory doesn't exist");
}

if ($_FILES['userfile']) {
    $message = do_upload($upload_dir, $upload_url);
}
else {
    $message = "Invalid File Specified.";
}

print $message;

function do_upload($upload_dir, $upload_url) {

    $temp_name = $_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'];
    $file_name = $_FILES['userfile']['name'];
    $file_type = $_FILES['userfile']['type'];
    $file_size = $_FILES['userfile']['size'];
    $result = $_FILES['userfile']['error'];
    $file_url = $upload_url.$file_name;
    $file_path = $upload_dir.$file_name;

    //File Name Check
    if ( $file_name =="") {
        $message = "Invalid File Name Specified";
        return $message;
    }
    //File Size Check
    else if ( $file_size > 500000) {
        $message = "The file size is over 500K.";
        return $message;
    }
    //File Type Check
    else if ( $file_type == "text/plain" ) {
        $message = "Sorry, You cannot upload any script file" ;
        return $message;
    }
:)line 73
    $result = move_uploaded_file($temp_name, $file_path);
    $message = ($result)?"File url <a href=$file_url>$file_url</a>" :
              "Somthing is wrong with uploading a file.";
:)line 76
    return $message;
}
?>

any ideas why im getting these errors?
ive got a feeling it could be somthing to do with the permissions ive got to my server and to uploading stuff to it? dont see why i would havre any problems though?!

cheers
ASH

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Yes. Sounds like it's a permissions problem. PHP needs the right to write the file into your destination directory - and PHP usually runs as 'nobody', and nobody ain't got no rights!

Have you chmod 777 your destination directory?

(I actually usually run a cron job to move files out of /tmp/ into my target folder on a set schedule, so that the job can run under the PID of a proper user and your directory can thus have proper permissions applied to it. This is a bit of a hack, though, since it isn't going to be good enough if you need the files moved immediately, and there's probably a better way that I haven't thought of.)

Take it easy
Dan

Hi Ashlee,
Here's an FAQ that I wrote for setting permissions:
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11962

There's a method demonstrated in there that's a little more secure than chmod 777, if you have the ability to preform chown commands. And of course if you have any more questions, let us know.

HTH!



Regards,
Rich

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