I do not believe this is actually an apache issue, however a few things
I noticed are:
Make sure the use PHP runs as has write access to /var/www/html
(probably not a good idea to have it in this folder, if this is your document
root, as you open up the entire web to writing by apache/php or whatever user
php runs as)
In the line: $_FILES['userfile']['name']='/usr/share/wallpapers/Circuit.jpg';
Why are you specifying the file name here? Should it not come from the
file upload form?
If you read your error message you will
note it is trying to upload the /usr/share/wallpapers/Circuit.jpg file, so it
is trying to read a local file, put it in the temp folder, then move the file to
the document root.
Also you may check yoru targetpath
statement – you define the target path, then ad the file name on it, then
try to copy the file over the file name you just defined:
$target_path = "/var/www/html/"; //defined here
$target_path = $target_path .
basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']); //you add a file name here
if(move_uploaded_file($tmpName,
$target_path)) { ///here you try to move the file with the $tmpName to the
$targetPath, but $targetPath already has the file name defined on it in the
line above
echo "The file ".
basename( $fileName). " has been uploaded";
Per the PHP Docs on move_uploaded_file:
“This function
checks to ensure that the file designated by filename is a valid upload file
(meaning that it was uploaded via PHP's HTTP POST upload mechanism). If the
file is valid, it will be moved to the filename given by destination.” In this case,
you have attempted to define the file using the $_FILES statement I pointed out….so
it is not coming from the post method as it should.
If you want, I will attempt to re-write it for you and reply personally
to keep the apache thread clean….
B Nab
From: kartikay
malhotra [mailto:kartikay.malhotra@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 8:05
AM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [users@httpd] Upload
files to local directory
Hi everyone!
I'm a linux user. I want to upload files to my Apache HTTP server. I have a
MySQL database in place. But prior to that I wish to save uploaded files in a
temporary folder.
I've used PHP scripts with HTTP POST method. But to no avail. No matter what
tutorial I consult, I cannot save the uploaded file.
1. What could I be doing wrong?
My file for reference:
<html>
<head>
<title>Upload File To MySQL Database</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['upload']))
{
$_FILES['userfile']['name']='/usr/share/wallpapers/Circuit.jpg';
$fileName =
$_FILES['userfile']['name'];
$tmpName =
$_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'];
$fileSize =
$_FILES['userfile']['size'];
$fileType =
$_FILES['userfile']['type'];
echo $fileName;
echo "<br>";
echo $tmpName;
echo "<br>";
echo $fileSize;
echo "<br>";
$target_path = "/var/www/html/";
$target_path = $target_path .
basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']);
if(move_uploaded_file($tmpName,
$target_path)) {
echo "The file ".
basename( $fileName). " has been uploaded";
}
else{
echo "There was an error
uploading the file, please try again!";
}
}
?>
<form action="" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data" name="uploadform">
<table width="350" border="0"
cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="box">
<tr>
<td width="246"><input
type="hidden" name="65536"
value="2000000"><input name="userfile"
type="file" class="box" id="userfile">
</td>
<td width="80"><input
name="upload" type="submit" class="box"
id="upload" value=" Upload "></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Sample output:
/usr/share/wallpapers/Circuit.jpg
/tmp/php8YIDF9
4376
There was an error uploading the file, please try again!
Please help!!
Many Thanks
KM
