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[Cam]

Hello group, I am new. I have a question that may be relatively easy
for someone to answer I hope.

I am running lighttpd on xp with php, perl etc. I am attempting to
teach myself PHP by going through the turoials on W3Schools.com. So
far it has been no problem and fun but I have recently hit a snag when
going through page. http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_file_upload.asp

The premise is it shows you how to select a file (restricted to jpg or
gif and file size of less than 20kb), and moves it to an /upload/
folder on the test server. If it is not a jpg or gif an larger than >
20kb it should give an error.

It works fine when uploading the small files, however when i am testing
it with a larger file image 100k or more the server seems to freak out.
The lighttpd error log shows this

(connections.c.1069) denying upload as opening to temp-file for upload
failed: /var/tmp/lighttpd-upload-2AGhiX No such file or directory

Firefox gives me 'The connection has been reset' message.

I am thinking there is maybe a setting in php.ini I should check? Not
sure, any ideas would be helpful. Thanks.

[Cam]

Cam wrote:

Hello group, I am new. I have a question that may be relatively easy
for someone to answer I hope.

I am running lighttpd on xp with php, perl etc. I am attempting to
teach myself PHP by going through the turoials on W3Schools.com. So
far it has been no problem and fun but I have recently hit a snag when
going through page. http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_file_upload.asp

The premise is it shows you how to select a file (restricted to jpg or
gif and file size of less than 20kb), and moves it to an /upload/
folder on the test server. If it is not a jpg or gif an larger than >
20kb it should give an error.

It works fine when uploading the small files, however when i am testing
it with a larger file image 100k or more the server seems to freak out.
The lighttpd error log shows this

(connections.c.1069) denying upload as opening to temp-file for upload
failed: /var/tmp/lighttpd-upload-2AGhiX No such file or directory

Firefox gives me 'The connection has been reset' message.

I am thinking there is maybe a setting in php.ini I should check? Not
sure, any ideas would be helpful. Thanks.

I missed the main point, I was testing sending a larger than allowed
file to see if the error message "Invalid file" is displayed, it does
not when the file is huge. But the invalid file message does display
if it is not a proper extension.

[Toby Inkster]

Cam wrote:

I am running lighttpd on xp with php, perl etc.

(connections.c.1069) denying upload as opening to temp-file for upload
failed: /var/tmp/lighttpd-upload-2AGhiX No such file or directory

I am guessing that as you're using Windows XP, you don't have a directory
called "/var/tmp/". Probably you need to go through "php.ini" and check
all the paths listed there.

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Cam schrieb:

It works fine when uploading the small files, however when i am testing

it with a larger file image 100k or more the server seems to freak out.
The lighttpd error log shows this

(connections.c.1069) denying upload as opening to temp-file for upload
failed: /var/tmp/lighttpd-upload-2AGhiX No such file or directory

Firefox gives me 'The connection has been reset' message.

I am thinking there is maybe a setting in php.ini I should check? Not
sure, any ideas would be helpful. Thanks.

Since small files work and big ones fail, these might be your problem:

- Your PHP script just takes too much time and finally gets stopped by
your server. Note, that PHP scripts have a predefined amount of time,
they
need to finish processing a request.

- Your PHP script probably isn't allows to upload files bigger than xxx
KByte.

Both properties are part of your php.ini settings. Review the php.ini
and probably
add more seconds or KBytes.

In case you'd like redefine a php.ini setting from within a PHP file,
have a look here: http://www.php.net/ini_set