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For those who don't wanna read all the text - just scroll down for solution.
A little introducion.
Today I was making a Joomla site for my customer. He requested to add an application from to his site. So, I thought why not to use ChronoForms. Ok downloaded, installed, looked into the manual, did everything. Added a file field, added enctype etc. Trying to submit... Dang, E-mail not sent... OK, I thought... Let's debug this. So I went to chronocontact.php and found a neat little function called

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handle_uploaded_files

in that function there is a var

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$fileperms = "0000";

and then theres is an if statement

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if ( strlen($mosConfig_fileperms) > 0 ) { $fileperms = octdec($mosConfig_fileperms); }

I though ok ... Let's see our $mosConfig_fileperms var in configuration.php . And dang ! It was

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$mosConfig_fileperms = '';

AHA ! Got you ! Basically because of that var the file was uploaded with 0000 CHMOD, that means that only webserver root can do something with it, that means that mosMail function wasn't even able to read this file, hence the "E-mail not send" error, since I dont have any root .. I changed it to 0644 so it became like this

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$mosConfig_fileperms = '0644';

And voila! "E-mail sent!" I'm happy, customer happy, everyone is happy. SOLUTION Short solution for those who don't wanna read all the text. All you need to do, is change $mosConfig_fileperms in your configuration.php to '0644' if it is ''. So it must look like that

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$mosConfig_fileperms = '0644';

P.S Sorry for my English, not a native speaker.<br><br>Post edited by: JohnieWalker, at: 2008/01/30 21:09

Hi JohnieWalker,

Great debug, thank you. I think we can add a check for this into ChronoForms that would write in a default value if the config value is not set.

Bob

This sounds like the problem I was having here.

Could that also explain why file upload that also sends an email works on some local servers and not remote because of permissions?<br><br>Post edited by: GreyHead, at: 2008/02/01 23:45

Hi brewster,

Could be, needs a few users to test it out.

Bob

I thought that this was my problem. The file showed up with 33KB on the website and when I downloaded it was 0 KB.

I followed your instructions, however, when I use 0644 the file is actually flagged as 204 and appends a T at the end of the permissions -w----r-- T. File still 0KB when I download.

I tried changing it to 777 and it flags the file as -wxrw-wt .
File is still 0 KB when I download. I've never seen the t before.

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Ruth

Hi Ruth,

Just to be clear - showing up as 33kb on the website - this is in the Uploads folder so the upload has completed successfully?

Bob