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image file upload directory structure

Thread began 1/25/2013 5:46 pm by jarrad407561 | Last modified 1/28/2013 2:16 pm by Jason Byrnes | 964 views | 3 replies |

1/25/2013 5:46 pm | #1 jarrad407561

image file upload directory structure

Hi I'm having a strange problem I don't quite understand.
I have the upload directory for the image files set to "../images/products/"
During testing on my local machine it worked perfectly, it recognise the ../ and went up a directory as it should, but with the site online it's not working the same..

When I try to upload a picture I get :

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/cust-web/h/d/E1111111/sites/www.testsite.com.au/tmp/phpeziVEh' to '/cust-web/h/d/E1111111/sites/www.testsite.com.au/html/testshop/admin/../images/products/36b27bed794f71c252f9b9515a46c599_tmp.jpg' in /cust-web/h/d/E1111111/sites/www.testsite.com.au/html/testshop/webassist/file_manipulation/helperphp.php on line 96

As you can see it is trying to upload to "/cust-web/h/d/E1111111/sites/www.testsite.com.au/html/testshop/admin/../images/products/"

It is counting the ../ as a directory called ".."

How can I get around this?

1/28/2013 8:52 am | #2 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

/cust-web/h/d/E1111111/sites/www.testsite.com.au/html/testshop/admin/../images/products/

is the equivalent of:
/cust-web/h/d/E1111111/sites/www.testsite.com.au/html/testshop/images/products/

the error is saying that the folder:
/html/testshop/images/products/

does not have the proper permissions to allow the uploaded image to be copied there.

double check the upload folder permissions to make sure they allow write access.

1/28/2013 1:59 pm | #3 jarrad407561

Ok, the directory has all permissions except public write access, does it need to have this?

1/28/2013 2:16 pm | #4 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

depending on the host, the directory may need to have public write access, yes.

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