PHP: move_upload_file not working

Question

I have a folder called team1->uploads->upload_file.php file. upload_file.php uploads a file but has to put it in the uploads directory so I was using ../ to go up a folder. File permissions are 700. I have

  move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"],
  "../uploads/".$_FILES["file"]["name"]);

I get the following error:

Warning: move_uploaded_file(../uploads/profile.jpg): failed to open stream: Permission denied in        D:\inetpub\wwwroot\vhosts\cs5339\team1\Produce\upload_file.php on line 31 Warning:     move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move 'C:\Windows\Temp\php938F.tmp' to '../uploads/profile.jpg' in    D:\inetpub\wwwroot\vhosts\cs5339\team1\Produce\upload_file.php on line 31 registered

Anyone know how to fix this? Is there another way to upload files?

Check with your web server configuration, namely related with `move_uploaded_file()` functions, is it is ON or OFF. — samayo, May 05 '13 at 16:00

razz · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-05T16:13:12.937

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set permissions to 777 on the uploads folder, you can do that directly on the folder or using php:

chmod("../uploads/", 777);

edited May 05 '13 at 16:13

answered May 05 '13 at 16:01

razz

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... only need 3 dots or just 2? – wwjdm May 05 '13 at 16:05
yep 2 dots, i was referring to the path in general.. `'../uploads/'` should work – razz May 05 '13 at 16:14
Alternatively you can try a little test: `echo file_exists('../uploads/')? 'yes':'no'; echo file_exists($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"])? 'yes':'no';` – Stano May 05 '13 at 16:31

PHP: move_upload_file not working

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