copy() problem

[Anon]

I accidentally put this in the install section of the forum. here is the same question as is posted there. Sorry for the redundancy...

I've gone through the forum looking for help on this one and have not been able to find a definitive response to this.

My hosting folks (god bless 'em) are running PHP 3.0.15. I'm told by them that I have permission to do this: I'm trying to put together a file uploading form.

I've gotten all the way to the copy($oldfile,$newfile) function.

i'm using the standard function workaround (from the php.net site) as follows:

function is_uploaded_file($filename) {
if (!$tmp_file = get_cfg_var('upload_tmp_dir')) {
$tmp_file = dirname(tempnam('', ''));
}
$tmp_file .= '/' . basename($filename);
/ User might have trailing slash in php.ini... /
return (ereg_replace('/+', '/', $tmp_file) == $filename);
}

and i'm calling it from this:

if (is_uploaded_file($userfile)) {
$newfile = basename($userfile);
copy($userfile, "/u/htdocs/uerid/images/".$newfile);
} else {
echo "Possible upload attack: filename '$userfile'.";
}

the error i get is this:
Warning: Unable to create '/images/phpAAA_CaqsH': No such file or directory in /u/htdocs/johnse/upload.php3 on line 25

Any ideas as to what is going on here?

Sorry to beat a dead horse with this problem, but I am at wit's end.

Thanks much!

[Anon]

Your problem has to do with where you are trying to put your file. /images means the images directory under the one I am currently in. Since your script is in the /u/htdocs/johnse/ directory it's looking to create the file in /u/htdoce/johnse/images/ you need to makesure that this directory exists. And you need to make sure that this directory is world writable (or at least group writable if your user and the web servers user have the same group).

[Anon]

Sorry I made a little mistake. By putting the slash infront of your directory (/images) you aren't looking for the directory /u/htdocs/johnse/images/ you are looking for the directory /images/ which probably doesn't exist and which you definately don't have permission to access.

[Anon]

Thanks Rob. Ultimately this was so stupid as to confound me. I needed to change the permissions on the images directory.

So simple. So hard.

Thanks again!