Re: file upload error

Tom wrote: > Thanks for the replies. My manual was out of date, not that it would > have made any difference to this anyway as ..... > upload_tmp_dir variable was correctly set in the php.ini file, and I'd > restarted the web server several times. It seems however that the file > is getting cached somehow, and is not re-read until I restart the entire > box. Anyone out there know why this may be, or a slightly better way of > getting around it than rebooting? > (By the way, the upload functionality is fine after the reboot :)) Several possibilities here... First, you can ERADICATE the idea that the file was getting cached, at least by Apache or PHP. Maybe you've got something really funky in your file-system to cache it, but that's also incredibly unlikely. On to the possible scenarios: 1. You only *THOUGHT* you re-started Apache, but the script you use to stop/start Apache, or Apache itself, failed to inform you that it didn't stop and then start correctly. 2. You *DID* re-start Apache, but the script you used is telling Apache to read a DIFFERENT httpd.conf from the one that gets read by your boot processing script (/etc/rc.init/[apache|httpd] probably, on Linux). That different httpd.conf, in turn, points to a DIFFERENT php.ini and/or mod_php.so getting loaded, so the php.ini you *thought* was getting re-loaded when you restarted Apache, was not the one really getting loaded. You can easily confirm/deny #2 by looking at <?php phpinfo();?> after a re-boot, then re-starting Apache, then looking at <?php phpinfo();?> again. The same php.ini file should be listed near the top in both cases, or you'll quickly find out which php.ini file[s] are being read. For #1, you can try your Apache re-start again, and use http://localhost/server-status (or is that server_status) to see Apache's up-time, if you have mod_status installed. Or you could use "ps auxwww | grep httpd" to see how long Apache has been runing. Or maybe use "top" to find out if you really really re-started Apache. Hopefully, this is a development machine so you can re-start and re-boot as needed to track down what is or isn't happening. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm