Move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move '/tmp/phpPKTrhf' to 'xarth.jpg'

[leebut]

Hello,
Ive been working through code show in the book ‘Learning PHP, MySQL, & JavaScript’ by Robin Nixon, in which he creates a social media site.

When trying to upload a file, I receive the following errors:
**Warning** : move_uploaded_file(xarth.jpg): failed to open stream: Permission denied in **/opt/lampp/htdocs/social_media/profile.php** on line **34**

**Warning** : move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move '/tmp/phpPKTrhf' to 'xarth.jpg' in **/opt/lampp/htdocs/social_media/profile.php** on line **34**

After reading posts about file/folder permissions, I changed the php.ini file to:
upload_tmp_dir="/opt/lampp/htdocs/social_media/upload/"

However, even after restarting Apache and MySQL servers, the error persists. phpinfo shows the updated file path.
Also, echo sys_get_temp_dir(); returns /tmp, so I am a bit confused as it seems that three folders are involved.

[EDIT] PHP is running as user daemon, which is the owner with read & write access to lampp/temp. I still cannot find the /tmp folder, even after searching the lampp directory. Well, there were tmp folders but for docs and phpmyadmin.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thank you.

[astonecipher]

You aren’t specifying the where.

move_uploaded_file($_FILES[‘uploaded’][‘tmp_name’], ‘upload/’)

[leebut]

Thank you for that.

I still had the error. I discovered that when I created the upload folder, the group permissions were set as the owner. I changed the group permissions to xamppusers, and now that error has gone.

All is working. :)

[astonecipher]

That was the next step to look at. Glad you figured it out