As a temporary measure (without security features) find the path to the directory you want to upload files to - eg /home/www/htdocs/site/gifs
>From a shell do (as root) : chmod -R a+rw /home/www/htdocs/site/gifs/* This will give any user read/write permissions to that directory and any below it. HTH, Ian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Phipps" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 10:04 AM Subject: Uploading files on a Cobalt > Hi, > > I am just in the process of building a site which has a photo upload > section. I have this section working really well on my WinXP dev machine > however when I try to get it to work on the Cobalt running Red Hat I can't > get the files to upload using CFFile. I keep getting the "Destination does > not exist or access is denied" error. We have tried uploading the files > into the coldfusion account which coldfusion should have write access to > but this does not work either. Where can we upload to? What should the > Destination be set to in the CFFile tag and how can we give coldfusion > write access to a directory that is not under its user privileges? > > So how do you upload files to an image folder located in a particular web > site? Has anyone done this on a Cobalt? > > MTIA > > Dave Phipps > > ============================================ > Phipps CF Development > Oxford, Oxfordshire. > Telephone: +44(0)7718 896696 > http://www.phipps-cf.co.uk > ============================================ > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-linux%40houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_linux or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
