By samueljonasson on

I have been trying for 6 hours now to get file upload to work. It wasn´t a problem yesterday, but now it is.

Files just don't get uploaded and I get no error message. Apache don't even log an error.

Here is the deal. When I had been strugglingn with this for hours I decided that my Drupal installation must have been currupted so I did a clean install.

- I enabled the upload module
- gave the user permission to use the upload module
- verified file level permission
- configure file handling

but still no luck.

I can't see anything wrong. I can however see a lot of forum posts regarding this but none of them seem to help me. I mean, this is just such a fundamental thing in any CMS that it should work - if not - it should give descriptive error messages. It just silently ignores my request to upload a file.

I first noticed this problem when I could not import a new language. It just said it could read the "" file. Didn't even say the name of the file it was trying to read so I figured there was something very wrong. Soon I noticed that no files where being uploaded.

Any ideas?

It has to be a configuration error - either in php.ini, httpd.conf or Drupal.

Sammi

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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VM commented

may be related to file size. php defaults to 2M are the files you are trying to upload larger then 2MB ? if so adjust the necessary line in php.ini to increase your ability to upload larger files.

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pbarnett commented

I've had some issues with the upload module myself; mostly due to where I decided to put the default upload directory... if it's in a subdirectory of the site, its writable by Apache; if not, you'll need to change some permissions.

When an upload fails, is there a file written to the upload directory, or is it failing completely?

Pete.

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samueljonasson commented

Hi,

I have double checked php.ini settings and file uploads are allowed for up to 300MB. I also check another CMS that is currently running og the same apache server (my local one) with the same php installation and uploads work there.

So I have narrowed it down to Drupal configuration - which seem quite simple. Just set where to upload files and who can do it.

However still no luck.

no file gets uploaded, not even into the tmp directory.

Sammi

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samueljonasson commented

looks like it is gonna be another long evening for me trying to figure this out.

Hope someone can shed some light on the issue.

Sammi

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pbarnett commented

Hi again.

In extreme circumstances, I've edited the offending module source code and added calls to http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/function/drupal_set_message in order to understand what is happening...

Worth a try...

Pete.

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marsrc commented

By chance, are you using organic groups (og) module? I have just learned, after many days of debugging, that when I enable the og module, my file attachments no longer work!

I have yet to figure out why, and will post an update soon.

I realize this is an old post, but I want to put this on here for others in case they have the same problem.