Unable to upload documents

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1

Hi guys,

When uploading a document to a card I get an error asking me to check permissions on my data folder.

I have set the user and group ownership of /var/www/kanboard folder recursively to www-data.

I have temporarily given 755 to the same folders.

I’ve also tried defining the temporary file manually to “/tmp” in the web-server php.ini without success.

I’ve looked at a few threads on this forum and Github and figured the above steps would work.

Can someone offer some guidance or hints on this?

Thank you,
Jim

2

files are uploaded to the data folder. that folder is defined in the config, and that folders permissions should be set correctly.

the default location is defined here:

3

Hi creecros,

So is something like this supposed to work then?
define(‘DATA_DIR’, ‘/var/www/kanboard/data’);
&
define(‘FILES_DIR’, ‘/var/www/kanboard/data/files’);

where I’ve manually created /files under /data.

Seems to return the same error so I must be off.

Jim

4

assuming the correct permissions and web server settings, yes, it should work. what’s your error message? can you paste it?

5

Sure no problem.

cat /var/log/syslog =>
php: [error] File not uploaded: 0

GUI =>
Unable to upload files, check the permissions of your data folder.
(The progress bar reaches 100% with this error message.)

ls -l /var/www/kanboard =>
drwxrwxrwx 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 3 19:44 data

Jim

6

and to be clear, you’re using apache, not nginx?

7

Yep, using apache for this.

Jim.

8

I would try:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/kanboard/data

just to be sure. if that doesn’t work, confirm that www-data is the user in the web server, and if that is confirmed, I am as clueless as you.

sorry, apache is not my cup of tea

9

I had done that command and tried again to confirm. No dice.

Some additional info (even if only for future readers):

In Ubuntu the default temp dir is /temp and I tested that files are being created there from within /var/www/kanboard with a php script placed in that directory & run. Temp also has www-data ownerships.

So, it may be safe to conclude that this isn’t a permissions issue, somehow O.o.

Jim

10

take a look at this answer:

maybe?

11

Hi creecros and readers.

Issue is solved now and here’s the answer (for my issue at least):

I was attempting this 0 byte files. It works with >0 byte files.
The web-server and permissions issues above were likely also a factor.

Jim

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