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Hi, I'm trying to use Uber-Uploader to allow friends and family to upload pictures taken at my wedding. I have the php files installed in:
/home/gthorne/vickiandgregthorne.com/photos, and the perl file is in /home/gthorne/vickiandgregthorne.com/cgi-bin.

I want to upload to /home/gthorne/vickiandgregthorne.com/photos/uploads
and am using /home/gthorne/vickiandgregthorne.com/phototmp as the temp directory.

When I try to run it, I get the error:
Error: Failed to find flength file

So, I made the recommended changes to the .htaccess in the /home/gthorne/vickiandgregthorne.com/photos/ directory. It now looks like this:

<IfModule mod_security.c>
# Turn off mod_security filtering.
SecFilterEngine Off

# The below probably isn't needed,
# but better safe than sorry.
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase Content-Type
"^multipart/form-data;" "MODSEC_NOPOSTBUFFERING=Do not buffer file uploads"
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on No
</IfModule>

But I still get the same error. In the ubr_default_config.php, I have set the following option:
$_CONFIG['upload_dir'] = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/uploads/';

In the ubr_ini.php file, I set the following:
$TEMP_DIR = '/home/gthorne/vickiandgregthorne.com/phototmp/';
$PATH_TO_UPLOAD_SCRIPT = '/cgi-bin/ubr_upload.pl';

And in the ubr_upload.pl, I set:
my $TEMP_DIR = '/home/gthorne/vickiandgregthorne.com/phototmp';

Sorry if this is too much info, but I wanted to give too much rather than too little. Any help would be appreciated.

P.S. I saw in another post where someone said that you have to make your own PHP.ini in order to do uploads over 5MB, is that true?

Actually, I am getting a different error altogether with your installation:

ERROR: Failed to open config file fb86b9e8052fbfe41c82369c14da88a1.link

It sounds to me like your path(S) might be messed up. Remember that PHP on DreamHost is running PHP-CGI, so certain environment variables might not return what you , or the programmer who wrote the code, might have expected.

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In the ubr_default_config.php, I have set the following option:
$_CONFIG['upload_dir'] = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/uploads/';

I'd tryh setting that to a "hard-coded" full path as a test. wink

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I saw in another post where someone said that you have to make your own PHP.ini in order to do uploads over 5MB, is that true?

It would be if you were relying upon PHP to do the actually uploading, but the nice thing about uber-uploader is that perl does the uploading, so the PHP limitation does not apply (which is why I recommend it for use on DH domains instead of a strictly PHP upload script).

--rlparker

Hmm. Tried that, same result.

It seems it may be something with the path to the temp directory, rather than the uploads directory. It's able to create the *.temp file, but not able to find it once its created.

Do you know of any working configs, and how they're set up? Where's the temp directory located?

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Do you know of any working configs, and how they're set up? Where's the temp directory located?

Yes, I shared one one my configs recently in a thread on these forums. You can find a working config file here.

In that installation, I created a "temp directory named "tmp" and made it a sub-directory immediately below my web "base" directory.

--rlparker

Hmm, well, I attempted copying every setting that I could (it looks like an older version). The $ENV variables don't seem to work as well as the $_SERVER (apparently, many of the $ENV variables end up being null). So, my current config looks like this, according the debug_config switch:

[config_file_name] => ubr_default_config
[upload_dir] => /home/gthorne/vickiandgregthorne.com/photos/uploads/
[multi_upload_slots] => 1
[max_upload_slots] => 10
[embedded_upload_results] => 0
[check_file_name_format] => 1
[check_allow_extensions] => 1
[check_null_file_count] => 1
[check_duplicate_file_count] => 1
[show_percent_complete] => 1
[show_files_uploaded] => 1
[show_current_position] => 1
[show_elapsed_time] => 1
[show_est_time_left] => 1
[show_est_speed] => 1
[cedric_progress_bar] => 1
[progress_bar_width] => 400
[get_status_speed] => 1000
[unique_upload_dir] => 0
[unique_upload_dir_length] => 16
[unique_file_name] => 0
[unique_file_name_length] => 16
[max_upload_size] => 2000097152
[overwrite_existing_files] => 0
[redirect_url] => http://www.vickiandgregthorne.com/ubr_finished.php
[redirect_using_location] => 0
[redirect_using_html] => 0
[redirect_using_js] => 0
[allow_extensions] => (wma|wmv|mpg3|mpg|mpeg|avi|mov|jpg|jpeg|gif|bmp|png|tiff)
[normalize_file_names] => 1
[normalize_file_delimiter] => _
[normalize_file_length] => 48
[link_to_upload] => 0
[path_to_upload] => http://www.vickiandgregthorne.com/photots/uploads/
[send_email_on_upload] => 0
[html_email_support] => 0
[link_to_upload_in_email] => 0
[email_subject] => Uber File Upload
[to_email_address] => email1@yoursite.com,email2@yoursite.com
[from_email_address] => admin@yoursite.com
[log_uploads] => 0
[log_dir] => /tmp/ubr_logs/
[opera_browser] => 0
[safari_browser] => 0

So, the question is, how does this differ from your install? Also, are you using an .htaccess?

Yes, from the distro dates I assume the version I am running is an "older" version (Mine was last installed on 7-1-2007, and I notice that the "current" version 6.1 was release on 1-6-2008)

The version I am running runs properly with the default DH PHP4.4.7 and 5.2.2 versions, and I have "extra web security" set to "ON" in the control panel.

I have it configured as follows:

in home/myusesr/mydomain.tld:
uu_conlib.php
uu_fileupload.js
uu_fileupload.php
uu_finished.php
uu_get_status.php
.htaccess

All these files have persmissions set to 0644. The contents of .htaccess are:

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<IfModule mod_security.c>  
  # Turn off mod_security filtering.  
  SecFilterEngine Off  
  # The below probably isn't needed,  
  # but better safe than sorry.  
  SecFilterScanPOST Off  
</IfModule> 

<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on No
</IfModule>

in home/myusesr/mydomain.tld/cgi-bin:
uu_default_config.pm
uu_ini_status.pl
uu_lib.pm
uu_upload.pl

The directory, and all the files in it are set to permissions 755
Here are the contents of my uu_default_config.pm:

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package uu_default_config;
use strict; 
use Exporter;
 
@uu_default_config::ISA = qw( Exporter ); 
@uu_default_config::EXPORT = qw($config); 
 
use vars qw($config);

$config = {
	config_file_name         => 'uu_default_config',
	temp_dir                 => '/home/myusername/mydomain.tld/tmp/',
	upload_dir               => $ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'} . '/uploads/',
	unique_upload_dir        => 0,
	unique_upload_dir_length => 16,
	unique_file_name         => 0,
	unique_file_name_length  => 16,
	max_upload               => 2000097152,
	overwrite_existing_files => 0,
	redirect_after_upload    => 0,
	redirect_url             => 'http://' . $ENV{'SERVER_NAME'} . '/uu_finished.php',
	redirect_using_js_html   => 1,
	redirect_using_html      => 0,
	redirect_using_js        => 0,
	redirect_using_location  => 0,
	delete_param_file        => 1,
	get_data_speed           => 1000,
	disallow_extensions      => '(sh|php|php3|php4|php5|py|shtml|phtml|cgi|pl|plx|htaccess|htpasswd)',
	allow_extensions         => '(jpg|jpeg|gif|bmp)',
	normalize_file_names     => 1,
	normalize_file_delimiter => '_',
	normalize_file_length    => 32,
	link_to_upload           => 0,
	path_to_upload           => 'http://'. $ENV{'SERVER_NAME'} . '/uploads/',
	send_email_on_upload     => 0,
	html_email_support       => 0,
	link_to_upload_in_email  => 0,
	email_subject            => 'Uber File Upload',
	to_email_address         => 'email_1@somewhere.com,email_2@somewhere.com',
	from_email_address       => 'admin@yoursite.com',
};
   
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One of the ways our config files differ is that you have not "quoted" your path_to_upload variable assignment.

I have directories "uploads" and "tmp" as sub-directories immediately beneath mydomain.tld in the directory tree, and they are set to permissions 755.

--rlparker

[path_to_upload] -- has a typo (photots).

Thanks, just fixed that. That doesn't seem to be the main issue, but I'm sure that would've snagged me down the line.

Maybe tmp_dir needs to be more complete.

Paste this in your fav editor : <?php $p = getcwd() ; echo $p;?>

Save as cwd.php, upload to your tmp dir, call it in your browser.

Include a space before the 1st period in path_to_upload

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