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Can't upload images in 4.0.5
I just created a new site using 4.0.5 and everything was going smoothly until I tried to upload an image. When I try to upload an image I get a message that the temporary directory is undefined and that I should set it in the advanced preferences. Well, there is an entry for the temporary directory in the advanced preferences and the diagnostics find it just fine. I tried opening the permissions up (777) on the location and that didn’t help, but then I took away write permissions (555) on the location and the diagnostics correctly reported that the location was not writable. Here is the relevant snip of my diagnostics output:
Textpattern version: 4.0.5 (r2466)
Last Update: 2007-07-27 01:58:38/2007-07-27 01:52:37
Document root: /home/users/web/b966/pow.elw/htdocs (/hermes/web07/b966/pow.elw/htdocs)
$path_to_site: /hermes/web07/b966/pow.elw/htdocs
Textpattern path: /hermes/web07/b966/pow.elw/htdocs/textpattern
Permanent link mode: year_month_day_title
Temporary directory path: /home/users/web/b966/pow.elw/htdocs/textpattern/tmpAny thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks,
- Marc
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Re: Can't upload images in 4.0.5
What happens if you set the temporary directory path to /hermes/web07/b966/pow.elw/htdocs/textpattern/tmp ?
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Same thing. That is actually what the path was set to originally, but I’ve got another site with the same hosting company running 4.0.4 that works with the /home… path so I changed it to see if that would fix it. It just seems odd that the diagnostics would find the correct path but the image upload would not.
- Marc
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What is the exact error message you get when uploading an image and does that occur as soon as you press the ‘upload’ button when uploading a new image?
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I just tried to upload a file as well and it failed saying just: “Failed to upload file test.txt”
I’m thinking these two problems are related.
- Marc
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Is that the complete error message? And what exact error message do you get when uploading images?
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Yes, that is the complete error message for the file upload. The actual error message from the image upload is: “Temporary directory undefined, please update your Advanced Preferences.”, and yes, it happens as soon as I click the upload button.
- Marc
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I think this is problem with uploading through PHP in general on your website, not related to TXP.
Can you put the code below in a file called upload.php, save it on your website, open it in your browser, try to upload a file and tell us what it shows at the top of the page.
<html><head><title>upload test</title></head><body>
<pre><?php echo var_dump($_FILES); ?></pre>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="" method="POST">
<input name="myfile" type="file" />
<input type="submit" value="Upload" />
</form>
</html>And try if putting this in your .htaccess file helps:
php_value upload_tmp_dir /home/users/web/b966/pow.elw/htdocs/textpattern/tmpLast edited by ruud (2007-07-29 18:06:33)
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Oh, I really hate when I’m the “user” in “user error”. ;-)
I created the upload.php as you suggested and it gave me error code 6 (UPLOAD_ERR_NO_TMP_DIR), so I started looking into that. Then I decided to try the upload.php script on my other site, just to see what would happen. Well, it was successful and when it showed me the ‘temp_name’ value I realized what I had done. It pointed to ‘/…/htdocs/cgi-bin/tmp’. Long story short, I had deleted the ‘cgi-bin/tmp’ directory when I was cleaning up files from a previous site thinking it was just something I didn’t need any more.
Sorry for wasting all of your time on my mistake. I really appreciate all of your help though.
Thanks,
- Marc
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