Without seeing the entire error message I would suggest yoiu check your hosting site temp dir as well as WP. If my memory is correct then you will be using the hosts /tmp and there may be an issue there. Check by running a test upload and echo out the file tmp_name attribute.
More $_FILES info
datasoftict – I appreciate your response, but……
Here is the entire error messsage:
(Image file name) has failed to upload due to an error
Missing a temporary folder
Uploading images to a blog is about as basic as you can get. I have seen many messages in this forum from people having the same issues and getting support suggestions that are way over their heads. I am not a tech person. If WordPress is this complicated on such a basic issue and so many people are having so many problems with this one issue and no one has yet found a basic resolution, than maybe WordPress is just beyond my capabilities. I’m sorry but maybes, and run checks may work with someone who writes code, but it doesn’t help me. I have to work thru my hosting techs. They have already spent hours trying various solutions suggested in the forums without success.
I think there are many thousands if not tens of thousands of WP installations. If there was such a fundamental flaw I think it would show by now. If only .5% had some form of error it would still look like a lot of sites, indeed it would be a lot, but not compared to how many work OK.
I am suggesting that there could be other issues regarding the WP upload. Often there are errors using the /tmp directory set in PHP. You, as a user, might have permission issues and so on.
Hosting companies will try briefly to do what they can, but they have their own agenda as well. All I was suggesting is that you should try running a simple file transfer using a .php file outside of WP and see if it works. If you can’t do this then maybe the techies at your web hosting can do it as a test on your behalf.
WP should work straight from the uzip file, but depending on so many factors it doesn’t always. I can’t help you as I can’t access your host, so if there are checks and changes that are needed you are the only one who can do that. The alternative is to find a developer who can help and pay the appropriate rate, or keep asking your hosting to check out what is going wrong. Running a test upload is hardly going to them more than a few minutes for them. Normally I would suggest running phpinfo and checking the /tmp directory, but that might be best done by them as well.
Might be a bit late to make a difference, but I had this problem on a windows machine and solved it by editing the upload_tmp_dir section of php.ini to point to the temp directory in windows “c:\windows\temp”.
