missing a temporary folder wordpress upload

Question

I have a wordpress installed . Host provider is 1&1. Now if i tried to upload media file it show me the error missing a temporary folder . I also define a path fpr temp directory . I refer this link link . And created the php.ini file in the home directory . My php.ini file content is

upload_max_filesize = 16M
upload_tmp_dir = on
upload_tmp_dir = /epigram.co.uk/tmp

I also tried to change wp-config file and added this

define('WP_TEMP_DIR','/epigram.co.uk/tmp');

Also tried with full path . like

define('WP_TEMP_DIR',$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/tmp');

Nothing helped me . any help will be appreciated .Thanks

That error is thrown by PHP and likely you will need to contact your host to have them specify a temporary directory (e.g. upload_tmp_dir in php.ini) — Deep Kakkar
there is allready a php.ini file on my wordpress root folder. Can't i set this from here?? — Manoj Dhiman

Deep Kakkar Deep Kakkar · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-03T10:08:02

Edit your php.ini file which is located in etc/ folder, remove comment from the line upload_tmp_dir (by deleting the semi-colon “;”) and pointing the variable to a folder using an absolute path.

1.) open a terminal

2.) create a temporary folder for all apache tasks in your user folder and grant all right to all users:

mkdir wwwtmp && chmod 0777 wwwtmp

3.) edit php.ini with your text editor and set the temporary folder (you must switch to root user)

 su
 vim /opt/lampp/etc/php.ini
 upload_tmp_dir = /home/my_user/wwwtmp/

Remeber to remove preceding “;”

4.) save the file (in vim type :wq an press enter) and restart xampp using this command

/opt/lampp/./lampp restart

I hope this will remove error if everything went fine.

missing a temporary folder wordpress upload

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