I get this message in the file upload window, “A problem was encountered while uploading this file.” when attempting to upload an image. I select the image I want to upload, I have set the upload directory to 777, and have been using PMachine Pro for several years now without any problems concerning this.

I feel it may be some little tweak in the code somewhere but, I don’t know much about code.

It is extremely important that I get this to work properly.

PLEASE HELP!

Robin

I have checked in with my server/host and the ops manager claims that everything seems fine on their end.

NEED HELP ASAP!!!
please

Dangit - where are you guys when I neeeeeed you?! I looked into the Knowledge-Blog and tried changing the config.php file to reflect Upload Method 1, 2, and 3 - none of which worked. However, when I did change to methods 2 and 3 the upload manager response was slightly different.

Instead of displaying the error: “A problem was encountered while uploading this file.” I received some text stating that the file type was not allowed.

I have checked a bazillion times to be sure the upload preferences allow jpeg, jpg, gif, and png. All looks to be correct. My uploads directory chmod is still set to 777.

WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?!!!!!!!!
Please help

There are very few people around any more that know anything about pMachine PRO.

What kind of file are you trying to upload?
Which version of Pmachine PRO?

The clue here is the error about the file type.

Thank GOD!

I am using PM 2.4
Trying to upload a jpeg
This has worked on every other site I have created. This time is different because I am having to work with a new server.

Can you send me the jpeg file you’re trying to upload?

Do you have regular .jpg files to test with?

How about .gif - do they work?

Reply to shecodes@gmail.com

Robin Reece, hi

this is a problem usually from your ISP. You may just have to contact the hosting company for help.

It’s certainly possible that a Host could set their servers up in such a way that the File Browser feature wouldn’t be allowed to work.  That’s certainly rare, but not impossible. There is a setting in your config.php you can turn on if your Host has “open_basedir” restrictions enabled. (maybe this will help you)

did you use powweb.com as your ISP? If you do, this is the problem read :.....http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/28343/

As Rick Ellis said in http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/20110/--->

There are a number of reasons uploading might fail.  It could be that your server has something called an “open_basedir” restriction.  It might be that your host as disabled file uploading via PHP, etc.  In many cases, it is not possible for the upload script to determine why it’s not allowed to upload, only that it failed, which is why the message is generic.

Having said that, in most cases, it’s one of two things:

1.  Improper file permissions:  Make sure the folder into which you are uploading has the proper permissions:  777

2. Invalid path.  The path specified to the upload folder is incorrect.  Not likely if it’s a brand new installation.

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I hope i helped you

ps. I am still using Pmachine in many Portals and i have no problems!

Thanks Jostar!

So the problem has been resolved. Here is what happened:

I HAD contacted my hosting company to be sure it wasn’t on their end before I started freaking out. The Operations Mngr that I was in constant contact said that everything appeared to be working just fine.

I HAD checked and rechecked my permissions and they were showing up 777 on my end. I even tried changing them 664 and 644 and these changes did nothing.

I was totally confused as was my host. However! Here is where the problem was and why I had trouble diagnosing it…
The hosting ops manager passed on my problem (FTP, PM passwords and all) to his manager. She then discovered that my permissions were NOT set to 777. SO, even though they were showing 777 on my end, they were not actually being changed. This was due to the fact that I was not the previous web master for this domain and all permissions were set to someone else’s authority.

Tough one to figure out but, thank you for all of your help!
It’s nice to not be freaking out anymore

Robin

I can NOT post images in my site.
Permition of “uploads” is 777
Relative Path to Directory is
../images/upload/
or
/pub/home/micr0/www/images/uploads/
it do not work =(((

Please!!!! Anybody help me!!!!!!!