PHP Warning: move_uploaded_file() unable to move
Solution 1
Change upload permissions for /var/www/media2net/uploads/ either by changing owner with "chown" or by "chmod"
Examples
$ sudo chown apache:apache /var/www/media2net/uploads/
$ sudo chmod 755 /var/www/media2net/uploads/
Also, if downloaded_file.png
already exists in that directory and it's owned by another user, then you would need to change ownership on that file as well.
$ sudo chown apache:apache /var/www/media2net/uploads/downloaded_file.png
This way, it can be successfully overwritten by Apache.
Solution 2
This solved the problem for me:
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/
brendosthoughts
Updated on August 20, 2020Comments
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brendosthoughts over 3 years
I've been slowly learning PHP and have found an array of information on the subject and solutions posted by other developers. I am attempting to have an android application upload a file to PHP server via HTTP post. However something is not working on my server side wile attempting to write to file in PHP.
Here is the PHP code:
// Where the file is going to be placed $target_path = "/var/www/media2net/uploads/uploads"; /* Add the original filename to our target path. Result is "uploads/filename.extension" */ $target_path = $target_path . basename($_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']); if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) { echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']) . " has been uploaded"; chmod("uploads/" . basename($_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']), 755); } else { echo "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!"; echo "filename: " . basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']); echo " target_path: " .$target_path; }
I already know from inspecting wire shark on client side that http post is sent out correctly, also I have ensured that the directory I'm writing the file to has the correct permissions, and php safe mode is set to off.
the output from apache2 error.log file reads
[Wed Dec 05 09:25:36 2012] [error] [client 74.14.162.250] PHP Warning: move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move '/tmp/phpVLOnn3' to '/var/www/media2net/uploads/downloaded_file.png' in /var/www/media2net/upload.php on line 9
Any help with this problem or further ways to trouble shoot this would be appreciated.
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Niclas Larsson over 11 yearsYeah, I know. It was just an example, changed it.
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Parapluie almost 7 yearsSwitching ownership to apache:apache did not work for me. I made ownership the same as the owner of the originating php script. This also allowed me to use the more restrictive chmod 770.
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Niclas Larsson almost 7 yearsmust use the same user as the webserver (if you're using mod_php) or the same user as php-fpm if you're using that. Debian for instance, uses www-data for apache.