Perl cgi file upload

Your other script appeared to work but could not find the here doc terminator. So the path to perl should be OK. I think we're getting somewhere now.. The file paths for the upload are not right.

But im unsure of the convention.. I've also noticed that even when I get that last error, I check the canvasimages directory on the ftp and there are no images stored. Hi Kev, I tried that script but i got the following: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

I'm gonna have the word with the server administrator when he's in and see what he can do.. I have saved your script you did on notepad on a p.

I made sure all the permissions were set to but no luck Im confused by this last error because I thought I was getting somewhere with my script but getting that error message on your script makes me think i'm doing something wrong my end The script I posted for you to try should work, if it does not then you need to make sure to upload in ASCII text mode.

That is different than the format you save the file in. See your FTP programs help files for "transfer mode" or similar. Hello again Kevin, I looked up how to upload in ascii format and it looks like I was uploading in ascii format all along, so thats not the issue, I've decided to get a new script as I got fed up trying to debug the old one, but I'm now having problems with this news script I downloaded the file uploader script from www.

Set only one! Thanks Kevin, Iv'e done that. Not sure if it works yet as I'm still having trouble submitting the form.. I now seem to get the error "Error : Cannot upload file jpg: Permission denied" The file name is paypal. I have checked the permissions on the uploadfolder, the script folder and the. That should be You can check the folders permissions using an FTP program or your websites control panel, if there is one.

Post Reply. This allows one to access methods in the CGI. One can then read in the filename of uploaded file. The following bit tests for such problems. May be it is too big?. One can then safely ignore the leading path. Using the file handle, we can read the contents of the file, and save it to a new file in our file upload area on the server. At the top of our script, we need to create the shebang line. We then put the Perl interpreter into strict mode to make our script as safe as possible, and include the Perl CGI and File::Basename modules for use in the script.

In addition, the -T switch turns on taint checking. If you try to use tainted data, Perl throws an error. More on this in a moment. We need to create a location on our server where we can store the uploaded files. Make sure your directory can be read and written to by your script; on a shared UNIX server, this usually means setting the mode to for example, by issuing the chmod upload command at the command line.

We can then read in the filename of our uploaded file, and the email address that the user entered into the form:. We can test for this and report the problem to the user as follows:.

We can then safely ignore the leading path. To locate the extension, we pass in the regular expression '.. We then join the extension back onto the name to reconstruct the filename without any leading path.