By acr2002 on

I have a feeling the answer to this question is really obvious but I can't seem to find an answer.

After moving my Drupal installation from my personal computer (running XAMPP) to a shared server everything works great except I get the following error when trying to upload an image:

* warning: move_uploaded_file(C:\xampp\tmp/test.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mywebsite/public_html/includes/file.inc on line 572.
* warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phpX8DJbU' to 'C:\xampp\tmp/test.jpg' in /home/mywebsite/public_html/includes/file.inc on line 572.
* File upload error. Could not move uploaded file.

Looks like I just need to update the directory it's using to temporarily store the uploads? Can't figure out where this directory is stored....

I really appreciate any help. Thanks.

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regenwethernolanj’s picture

regenwethernolanj commented

I could be wrong, but check your permissions on your tmp directory to see if it can be written to. I had all sorts of weird errors once and I did that and it fixed it. I don't know if thats your problem, but it can't hurt.

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acr2002 commented

Don't I have to change the directory "C:\xampp\tmp" to a working temp dir on the server? That directory is what it was using when it was installed on my computer. I'm just not sure how to go about changing it.

LukePickering’s picture

LukePickering commented

It looks like Drupal is picking up the image from a tmp folder and trying to write it to a folder on c:

Surely it should be trying to write it to a folder on the server, no?

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

drupal will write files wherever you've told it to at: admin/settings/file-system. Do you have drive c in the file system path setting?

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joeburnham commented

I have a content type that includes both an audio and video file. I was running into this error issue so I changed my /tmp files to /sites/all/tmp and the audio now uploads perfectly. However, the video is going the same thing, and even gives me the error that it can't move the file from the /tmp directory.

Is there some setting that would prompt one kind of file to keep trying to upload to one place, while other files go somewhere else?

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gtothab commented

I was having the same problem originally described and i fixed it by changing the Temporary directory location over at site configuration > file system.

good luck ya'll