PHP | Create image works on local server but not remote host

Question

I have modified a project to insert a text into an image. It works perfectly on local server but on remote he says: The requested URL /covers/03c7c0ace395d80182db07ae2c30f034.jpg was not found on this server.

The script doesn't create the image but on my local server it works. GD and Freefont are installed so i don't know what to do Please help me

<?php

$fontname = './font/arial.ttf';
// controls the spacing between text
$i=30;
//JPG image quality 0-100
$quality = 90;

function create_image($user){

  global $fontname;
  global $quality;
  $file = "./covers/".md5($user[0]['name'].$user[1]['name'].$user[2]['name']).".jpg";

 // if the file already exists dont create it again just serve up the original
 //if (!file_exists($file)) {


   // define the base image that we lay our text on
   $im = imagecreatefromjpeg("pass.jpg");

   // setup the text colours
   $color['grey'] = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
   $color['green'] = imagecolorallocate($im, 55, 189, 102);

   // this defines the starting height for the text block
   $y = imagesy($im) - $height - 1393;
   $ye = imagesy($im) - $height - 1078;

  // loop through the array and write the text
  foreach ($user as $value){
   // center the text in our image - returns the x value
   $x = 1260;
   $xe = 930;
   $text=$value['name'];
   $testo=$value['gatto'];
   $newtext = wordwrap($text, 40, "\n", true);
   imagettftext($im, $value['font-size'], 0, $x, $y, $color[$value['color']], $fontname,$newtext);
   $newtesto = wordwrap($testo, 40, "\n", true);
   imagettftext($im, $value['font-size'], 0, $xe, $ye, $color[$value['color']], $fontname,$newtesto);
   // add 32px to the line height for the next text block


  }
   // create the image
   imagejpeg($im, $file, $quality);

 //}

  return $file;
}

function center_text($string, $font_size){

   global $fontname;

   $image_width = 800;
   $dimensions = imagettfbbox($font_size, 0, $fontname, $string);

   return ceil(($image_width - $dimensions[4]) / 2);
}



 $user = array(

  array(
   'name'=> '',
   'font-size'=>'9',
   'gatto'=>$_POST['gatto'],
   'color'=>'grey'),


  array(
   'name'=> '',
   'font-size'=>'16',
   'color'=>'grey'),

  array(
   'name'=> '',
   'font-size'=>'13',
   'color'=>'green'
   )

 );




 $user = array(

  array(
   'name'=> $_POST['name'],
   'font-size'=>'9',
   'gatto'=>$_POST['gatto'],
   'color'=>'grey'),


  array(
   'name'=> $_POST['job'],
   'font-size'=>'16',
   'color'=>'grey'),

  array(
   'name'=> $_POST['email'],
   'font-size'=>'13',
   'color'=>'green'
   )

 );





// run the script to create the image
$filename = create_image($user);

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Schoolexploit.com | Modifica Etichette</title>

<!-- Latest compiled and minified CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-1q8mTJOASx8j1Au+a5WDVnPi2lkFfwwEAa8hDDdjZlpLegxhjVME1fgjWPGmkzs7" crossorigin="anonymous">

<!-- Optional theme -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css" integrity="sha384-fLW2N01lMqjakBkx3l/M9EahuwpSfeNvV63J5ezn3uZzapT0u7EYsXMjQV+0En5r" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./style.css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">
<!-- Latest compiled and minified JavaScript -->
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-0mSbJDEHialfmuBBQP6A4Qrprq5OVfW37PRR3j5ELqxss1yVqOtnepnHVP9aJ7xS" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

</head>

<body>

<div class="row">
 <div class="col-xs-12" id="asd">
   <img src="<?=$filename;?>" width="1000" height="500"/><br/><br/>
 </div>

</div>


<ul>
<?php if(isset($error)){

 foreach($error as $errors){

  echo '<li>'.$errors.'</li>';

 }


}?>
</ul>
<div class="col-xs-12" id="asd">

<h2>Istruzioni:</h2>

<p>Inserisci qui sotto il testo (rispetta il limite di caratteri)</p>
<p>Clicca sul pulsante Modifica per generare l'etichetta</p>
<p>Clicca col tasto destro sull'immagine, "salva immagine con nome..."</p>
<p>Stampa e ritaglia l'etichetta (per un risultato ottimale è consigliata una stampante laser)</p>
<p> Sostituiscila all'originale</p>

<div class="dynamic-form">
<form action="" method="post">
<label>Testo1(Max 200):</label>
<input type="text" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['name'])){echo $_POST['name'];}?>" name="name" maxlength="200" placeholder=""><br/>
<label>Testo2(Max 120):</label>
<input type="text" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['gatto'])){echo $_POST['gatto'];}?>" name="gatto" maxlength="120" placeholder=""><br/>
<input name="submit" type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="Modifica" />
</form>
</div>
</div>




</body>
</html>

have you looked into pathing as this can be diffrent on actual servers as they like to use the full path, rather that relative, not http:/// but somthign like: /home/mysite.com/html/imgs etc — Simon Davies, Feb 07 '16 at 20:10
./ ? in the server there is a www forder and a html folder inside of it. what tipe of path i have to use? — Matteo Pennisi, Feb 07 '16 at 20:27
you will get this form you server control panel etc, could run a phpinfo page to find it, have alook at this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6079479/how-to-get-the-absolute-path-to-the-public-html-folder — Simon Davies, Feb 07 '16 at 20:37

farooq · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-07T21:09:36.570

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Have you checked the permission for the covers directory? Set it to 644 or 777.

I am assuming you are running the project locally on Windows. Windows handles permissions differently than Linux. That's why it works locally but not on your remote server.

edited Feb 07 '16 at 21:09

answered Feb 07 '16 at 20:46

farooq

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Tom van Tilburg · Answer 2 · 2016-02-07T21:20:16.013

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He beat me to it, but :

chmod("/file/or/directory", 0777);

I forgot: If you (your webserver) don't have write access on that directory. You can't chmod that directory directly , you need to take ownership with Chown or chmod from a shell.

in Linux terminal

sudo chmod 777 /some/directory

edited Feb 07 '16 at 21:20

answered Feb 07 '16 at 21:08

Tom van Tilburg

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PHP | Create image works on local server but not remote host

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