Question

I have been attempting to move images from a form to an upload folder on my website which is hosted by godaddy. When using the move_uploaded_file() method, I get a permission denied error. I have gone through quite a few questions on this subject, but none of them have yet solved my problem. Also, I have changed my permissions to 777.

Here is the Error I have been getting:

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to
move ‘D:\Temp\php\php42C0.tmp’ to
‘upload/vZvD6WI4vkapbCLovWtrSIG3xPLD0E.jpeg’ in
D:\Hosting\11111\html\dir\upload_image\formsubmit.php on line 80

PHP Code:

$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];

if(isEmpty($name) || isEmpty($email)) {
    print '<b>Please go back to the previous page and fill out your name.</b>';
}
else {

$file_name = "file1";
    if ((($_FILES[$file_name]["type"] == "image/gif")
     || ($_FILES[$file_name]["type"] == "image/jpeg")
     || ($_FILES[$file_name]["type"] == "image/jpg")
     || ($_FILES[$file_name]["type"] == "image/bmp")
     || ($_FILES[$file_name]["type"] == "image/tiff")
     || ($_FILES[$file_name]["type"] == "image/png")
     || ($_FILES[$file_name]["type"] == "image/pjpeg"))
     && ( ($_FILES[$file_name]["size"] < 10000000) && $_FILES[$file_name]["size"] > 0) )
    {
        if ($_FILES[$file_name]["error"] > 0)
        {
            print "There was an error in uploading your images: " . $_FILES[$file_name]["error"] . "<br />";
        }
        else
        {
            if (file_exists("upload/" . $rand_img_name.".jpeg") )
            {
                print "Please try uploading your image again<br />";
            }
            else
            {
                move_uploaded_file($_FILES[$file_name]["tmp_name"],
                "upload" ."/". $rand_img_name.".jpeg");
                $files_are_valid[($i-1)] = true;
            }
        }
    }
    else
    {
        print 'Image must be a valid image under 10 MB (Make sure you submitted an image)<br />';
        $files_are_valid[($i-1)] = false;
    }
}

if($files_are_valid[0] == true) {
    $all_valid = true;
}
else {
    $all_valid = false;
}

Answer 1

This is a Windows server (the slashes in the paths give it away). So you need to set permissions through the GoDaddy permissions panel. You need to set read/write permissions for uploads directory. Setting 777 by FTP doesn’t cut it on Windows servers.

http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/6481/setting-directory-permissions-with-windows-hosting-accounts/