hello everybody, my script fror uploading a number of images to a 777 mode directory worked fine all the time - until i decided to rebuild my machine from scratch with apache 2.0 (running virtual hosts) redhat 9.0 mysql 4.0.12 php 4.3 now when attempting to upload an image i keep getting the "could not copy image... to..." message, on some occasions even a confirmation of successful script execution but with no image actually uploaded.. i have checked my php.ini settings including upload permissions, max upload file size, location of tmp folder safe_mode etc. to no effect. does anybody have an idea that may stop me from buying a rope...? kind regards philip attached please find the delinquent for your scrutiny --------- $link_identifier = mysql_connect($hostname,$username,$passwd); if ($link_identifier<=0) { echo mysql_errno().": ".mysql_error()."<br>"; exit; } $now = date("YmdHis"); $SQLStatement = "insert into $databasename.hotel ( name, ort, land, kategorie, link, beschreibung, thumb1, // -- image thumbnail to upload bild1, // -- image to upload thumb2, // -- image thumbnail to upload bild2, // -- image to upload timestamp ) values ( '$name', '$ort', '$land', '$kategorie', '$link', '$beschreibung', '$thumb1path', '$bild1path', '$thumb2path', '$bild2path', '$now' )"; $result = mysql_query($SQLStatement,$link_identifier); if (!$result) { echo mysql_errno().": ".mysql_error()."<br>"; exit; } $id = mysql_insert_id($link_identifier); mysql_close($link_identifier);