Title: NextGen plugin missing temp folder
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# NextGen plugin missing temp folder

 *  [lenamboa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lenamboa/)
 * (@lenamboa)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-plugin-missing-temp-folder/)
 * Hello all,
 * I have a WordPress install and I’am trying to use the NextGen Gallery plugin 
   to upload my family albums.
 * I’am facing the well known famous Upload Failed! Missing temporary folder on 
   my website.
 * So, I’ve asked my favorite friend, Google and I have read a lot of posts relating
   this issue, so far I’ve tried to solve it by running the following :
 * – Ive checked that upload_tmp_dir is ‘correctly’ set in my php.ini : i’ve tried
   to set it to “/tmp” and to “/var/www/htdocs/tmp”. Of course, both tmp and /var/
   www/htdocs/tmp folders exist and their permissions are set to 777 !
 * – Ive tried the echo getcwd(); thing into wp-admin/include/file.php but nothing
   showed up at all. So, I thought that it was not the correct file to put the echo
   thing into. I’ve greped the “Upload Failed!” on all /var/www/htdocs directory
   and this is the output :
 *     ```
       #!_ROOT_!#@pegasus:/var/www/htdocs# grep -r -e "Upload failed" *
       gallery/modules/gallery/helpers/item_rest.php:          "Bad Request", 400, array("errors" => array("file" => t("Upload failed"))));
       Binary file wp-content/languages/fr_FR.mo matches
       wp-content/languages/fr_FR.po:msgid "Upload failed."
       wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/admin/admin.php:             'upload_failed' => __('Upload failed.'),
       wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/admin/addgallery.php:                        nggGallery::show_error( __('Upload failed!','nggallery') );
       wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/admin/addgallery.php:                        nggGallery::show_error( __('Upload failed! ' . nggAdmin::decode_upload_error( $_FILES['imagefiles']['error'][0]),'nggallery') );
       wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/admin/addgallery.php:                    nggGallery::show_error( __('Upload failed! ','nggallery') );
       wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lang/nggallery.pot:msgid "Upload failed!"
       wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lang/nggallery.pot:msgid "Upload failed! "
       wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lang/nggallery.pot:msgid "Upload failed."
       Binary file wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lang/nggallery-de_DE.mo matches
       Binary file wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lang/nggallery-de_DE.po matches
       wp-includes/script-loader.php:          'upload_failed' => __('Upload failed.'),
       ```
   
 * So, I put the echo command in wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/admin/addgallery.
   php, and it showed me the tmp folder WP is trying to use which is htdocs/wp-admin
   in my case !!!
 * – Well, then i tried to create a tmp folder in htdocs/wp-admin and set the perms
   to 777.
    Still no luck.
 * – So, at that point I was tired to read posts and try a lot of stuff at random.
   So I’ve set the whole /var/www/htdocs folder’s permissions to 777 !!!!!! (God
   Forgive Me !!! 😉 )
    And guess what : exactly the same issue : temporary folder!
 * So I decided to post here.
 * My WP version is 3.4.1.
    System OpenBSD 4.9 kernel. Built in Apache HTTPD.
 * If you guys would like to know anything else about my config, feel free to ask.
   I’am not familiar with PHP and Web developement, so I dont know exactly what 
   parameters to post.
 * _[ Please do not bump, that’s [not permitted here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#No_Bumping).]_

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-plugin-missing-temp-folder/)
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