Php upload script on raspberry pi

Question

I have set up a apache2 webserver on my raspberry pi (jessie). I have a file upload php script in my /var/www/html/ folder. This script is supposed to upload the file to a /uploads folder ( /var/www/html/uploads ). The script is:

$folder = "/uploads";
move_uploaded_file($_FILES["filep"]["tmp_name"] , "$folder".$_FILES["filep"]["name"]); 

When I try to upload a file, I get upload success message and the name of file gets updated to the database, but when I check the /uploads folder, I don't see the file. I have given chmod 777 permission to the folder and changed upload_max_filesize to 16M and post_max_size to 32M . None of the methods worked.

Is my path wrong or am I missing something?

Answer 1

The folder /uploads is in your file system root and not under /var/www/html . To use a folder relative to the current directory leave out the leading / or use the constant __DIR__ to get the current directory.

$folder = "uploads/"; 
// or
$folder = __DIR__."/uploads/"; 

You could also use the complete path to the folder:

$folder = "/var/www/html/uploads/";