Hi,
I've been spending hours trying to figure out the problem with my upload file program. I have a form where a user presses the 'browse' button , chooses a file on their local directory and then my cgi script downloads it and prints it to a directory. I created this so that people can upload their images.

The form looks like this: 

<form action="profile_step4.pl"  enctype="multipart/form-data" >
choose file <input type="file" name="photo1">
<input type="submit">
</FORM>

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Then, in my "profile_step4.pl" script, I have the following: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use CGI;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

&GetAllCookies;
my $userid = $Cookies{userid};

$upload_dir = "/usr/home/tiri/htdocs/upload/";  ## not the real path .
+.. but the path is to my htdocs/upload directory (which already exist
+s)

$mydir .= $upload_dir .$userid ;

`mkdir $mydir`;      ## create the directory for this user

print "created the dir $mydir";

$query = new CGI;
$filename =  $query->param("photo1");
$upload_filehandle = $query->upload("photo1");
$filename=~ s/.*[\/\\](.*)/$1/;

open (UPLOADFILE, ">$mydir/$filename")|| die $! ;
binmode UPLOADFILE;

 while ( <$upload_filehandle> )
 {
   print UPLOADFILE;
 }

 close UPLOADFILE;

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Any suggestions on why this isn't working? When i run the program, i was able to determine that the program dies on the statement:

 $upload_filehandle = $query->upload("photo1");

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Why is it dying here? Do I need to set the 'upload' directory with any special permissions?

In reply to Problems uploading file by cranberry13

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