copy function

[dingleberry]

Hi, I've got a problem with a copy function I'm hoping someone out there has seen before.

I'm running an uploading script (or attempting to)

$upfile = "/home/theorangestudio/uploads/".$userfile_name;

if ( !copy($userfile, $upfile))

{
echo "Problem: Could not move file into directory $upfile";
exit;
}

and needless to say, I keep getting the problem could not move.... error.

I've declared my upload_tmp_dir = "/home/uploads/" in php.ini and enabled http uploads as well as set max size to 2M. I then set the /home/uploads permissions to 777 and also the $upfile directory permissions to 777. Still, not getting the copy function to work. I believe the file is uploading to temp directory, but copy is where the problem is. Do I have to give ownership of either /home/uploads or $upfile to nobody or something? Currently they're owned by my account (not root -- but I do have root access if I need it).

This is a shared hosting environment. Any ideas?

Thanks,
dan

 

[ingernet]

Hi dingleberry,

(I feel silly calling you that, please don't think I'm calling you names.)

Random question: /home is at the very top of the server's directory structure? That is to say, it's really /home and not /usr/local/dingleberry/

http://www/htdocs/home?

inger

 

[dingleberry]

Hey inger,

Thanks for your response.
that is correct. home is right below root. whole path is

/home/uploads/

why do you ask?

 

[sleipnir214]

There's some pretty good advice on uploads here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[dingleberry]

Got it.

I was using

copy($userfile, $upfile);
for a command when I should have been using

copy($userfile_tmpname, $upfile);

can't believe it took me 15 hours to figure that out.

Thanks for you help.
dan

 

[ingernet]

for future reference, if you're using PHP => 4.2.0, you can use the built-in debugging for more information on file uploads:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.errors.php

(the error messages are still quite vague, but they're better than nothing, i guess.)

inger