Using PHP move_uploaded_file function permission denied

Question

I've been stuck on this code for days as I am hitting this error when I upload a file to the server. Its a windows server running on Apache

Tried various solutions but still receiving the error. I tried changing full permissions to everyone on that server.

I changed the default PHP upload tmp file to inside my application yet I am still having this error.

Warning: move_uploaded_file(C:\My_Workspace\ojs2002) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in C:\My_Workspace\ojs\admin\include\fileupload.php on line 78

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move 'C:\My_Workspace\ojs\tmp\phpCB78.tmp' to 'C:\My_Workspace\ojs2002' in C:\My_Workspace\ojs\admin\include\fileupload.php on line 78

 // copy the file, making the destination directory if necessary
 $filedir = 'C:/My_Workspace/ojs2002/'.basename($_FILES['articlefile']['name']);


 chmod($_FILES["articlefile"]["tmp_name"], 0777);
 chmod($filedir, 0777 );        

 move_uploaded_file($_FILES["articlefile"]["tmp_name"],$filedir);

The code would work fine on Linux servers but not on Windows.

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank You.

sorry if I am misunderstanding, but have you changed the permissions of ojs2002 to 777? — Austin

pguardiario pguardiario · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-26T12:10:02

I decided to switch from:

move_uploaded_file($uploaded_file, $file_path);

to

file_put_contents($file_path, file_get_contents($uploaded_file));
@unlink($uploaded_file);

The unlink might fail but I'm not too worried about that.

Using PHP move_uploaded_file function permission denied

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