Did you checked folder permissions? While to allow upload your folder permissions must be set to 777. To do so, follow this:

• Login to terminal (with sudo privileges) through a client like PuTTY or you may directly use DOs control panel terminal
• Run this command:

sudo chmod 777 /path/to/upload/folder

Once you run this command, the folder permissions will be set to 777 that allows uploading file to your server by anyone. Please note, as this is a security risk, you should not have this upload directory/folder inside of your hosting folder (which is generally /var/www).

Hope this helps!

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Regards
Saurabh

Servopia.com
Managed Cloud Hosting For PHP Applications

Glad that it worked :)

Well, that’s a security concern. If your upload folder is inside of your directory which serves your website, then anyone can upload anything to this folder, as the directory permissions are set to 777. This is dangerous!

This folder should be outside of your website directory so your website directory is isolated.

When I say outside, the structure of your website directory & upload folder will be like this:

/path/to/your/website

/path/to/upload-folder

As you can notice, that the directory structure shows that your upload folder is a step above or say, outside of your website directory. This way, even if certain file is purposefully uploaded by a visitor to exploit your server, the website directory will be safe. Although this is not the only way to protect your server but, is the right way to do it.

If you have used WHMCS, you would notice how they suggest to put upload folder outside of their install directory!

Hope it resolves your query!

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Regards
Saurabh

Servopia.com
Managed Cloud Hosting For PHP Applications On DigitalOcean IaaS