php file upload script help

[Habitual]

I have some legacy php coded files that upload a file to the webserver.

The script "sort of" works now, but does not upload to the correct directory.


if(!empty($_FILES['fileToUpload']['name'])){
$filename = sanitize_file_name($_FILES['fileToUpload']['name']);
$savePath = 'lvUTmp';
if(!file_exists(ABSPATH . $savePath)){
mkdir($savePath, 0703, true);
}
is the relevant snippet.

It gets put in /var/www/html/domain instead.

This (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960180/abspath-or-file) says "Also, using the WordPress internal constants (such as ABSPATH) is not recommended"
so since I'd like to avoid that, I need to change it.

Most of the guts of the script can be seen over here... (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/php-file-upload-help-with-code-4175489293/#post5087606)

Thank you.

[SeijiSensei]

There are two file locations involved here. One is the temporary directory specified in /etc/php.ini or overriden by upload_tmp_dir (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.upload-tmp-dir):



ini_set('upload_tmp_dir','/path/to/some/directory');


Usually you want to move this file to a permanent location. For that PHP offers the move_uploaded_file() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.move-uploaded-file.php) function.

Naturally both of these directories must be writable by the server user, www-data.

[Habitual]

There are two file locations involved here. One is the temporary directory specified in /etc/php.ini or overriden by upload_tmp_dir (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.upload-tmp-dir):



ini_set('upload_tmp_dir','/path/to/some/directory');


Usually you want to move this file to a permanent location. For that PHP offers the move_uploaded_file() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.move-uploaded-file.php) function.

Naturally both of these directories must be writable by the server user, www-data.

Thanks SeijiSensei;
I have already set (after posting this)

upload_tmp_dir = '/var/www/html/domain/lvUTmp'; in /etc/php.ini and bounced httpd.


ls -ld lvUTmp
drwx-----x. 2 apache apache 4096 Dec 31 07:05 lvUTmp/
and

stat -c%a lvUTmp/
701

Where should I attempt to use

ini_set('upload_tmp_dir','/path/to/some/directory');?

Thanks.

[SeijiSensei]

If you make the change in php.ini, you don't need to use ini_set(). That function allows you to override configuration settings on the fly.

[Habitual]

Update:

curl_setopt($Curl_Session, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://fileserver.domain.com:8443/FileServer/fileupload');
curl_setopt($Curl_Session, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $filename); and verboseOut.txt now shows:

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
< Content-Length: 0
< Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:24:04 GMT
<
* Connection #0 to host fileserver.domain.com left intact
* Closing connection #0

Still no file write on fileserver.domain.com/FileServer/<user_name>

inching closer...

[Habitual]

well, it's working.
I never could get uploaded files into /var/www/html/domain/lvUTmp
but I can remove them from /var/www/html/domain/ using

unlink($filename); after they get copied to the remote tomcat FileServer/<user_name> resource. so it's mostly moot now.

Thanks!