# File upload doesn't work in production mode **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 12, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-upload-doesnt-work-in-production-mode/57610 "2006-04-12T14:03:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![azgar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@azgar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/azgar)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-upload-doesnt-work-in-production-mode/57610/1 "2006-04-12T14:03:46Z")
Can anyone understand what the production.log file is telling me. I’ve tried playing with the permissions for the folders and it makes no difference. Every time I submit the form to upload the file I get “Application error (Rails)” which doesn’t really help. Processing DocsController#create (for 82.152.151.194 at 2006-04-12 12:44:13) [POST] Session ID: b27441574a2e76188be2b59b3572affb Parameters: {“commit”=\>“Save and continue”, “doc”=\>{“filename\_temp”=\>"", “filename”=\>#StringIO:0xb70d8118, “label”=\>“test”}, “action”=\>“create”, “controller”=\>“admin/docs”} Errno::EACCES (Permission denied - /var/www/html/hjplaw.co.uk/current/public/…/config/…/public/doc/filename/tmp/1144842253.766011.302): /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243:in `mkdir' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243:in`fu\_mkdir’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:172:in `mkdir' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:171:in`mkdir’ /vendor/plugins/file\_column/lib/file\_column.rb:216:in `store_upload' /vendor/plugins/file_column/lib/file_column.rb:150:in`upload’ /vendor/plugins/file\_column/lib/file\_column.rb:70:in `assign' /vendor/plugins/file_column/lib/file_column.rb:652:in`filename=’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.0/lib/active\_record/base.rb:1506:in `attributes=' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1505:in`attributes=’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.0/lib/active\_record/base.rb:1350:in `initialize_without_callbacks' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.0/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:236:in`initialize’ /app/controllers/admin/docs\_controller.rb:20:in `create' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/base.rb:908:in`perform\_action\_without\_filters’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action\_controller/filters.rb:355:in `perform_action_without_benchmark' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in`perform\_action\_without\_rescue’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in`perform\_action\_without\_rescue’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action\_controller/rescue.rb:82:in `perform_action' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/base.rb:379:in`process\_without\_filters’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action\_controller/filters.rb:364:in `process_without_session_management_support' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:117:in`process’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.0/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in `dispatch' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:150:in`process\_request’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.0/lib/fcgi\_handler.rb:54:in `process!' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/./fcgi.rb:600:in`each\_cgi’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/./fcgi.rb:597:in `each_cgi' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:53:in`process!’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.0/lib/fcgi\_handler.rb:23:in `process!’ /var/www/html/hjplaw.co.uk/current/public/dispatch.fcgi:24 – ---
**Author:** ![azgar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@azgar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/azgar)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-upload-doesnt-work-in-production-mode/57610/2 "2006-04-12T14:22:28Z")
From the tmp/sessions directory you can try deleting the files created there. ---
**Author:** ![azgar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@azgar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/azgar)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-upload-doesnt-work-in-production-mode/57610/3 "2006-04-12T14:47:15Z")
I deleted the tmp/sessions files and restarted the server and unfortunately it’s still doing the same as before. ---
**Author:** ![azgar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@azgar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/azgar)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-upload-doesnt-work-in-production-mode/57610/4 "2006-04-12T14:53:35Z")
Its really strange then…whats your OS? What permissions you are using? Just make sure that tmp and log directory are writable. Also, where exactly you are saving files uploaded with file\_column plugin? Do, you have write permissions there? Looks like, you are having problems with file\_column plugin? You will have to post full stacktrace…only then we can help!!. ---
**Author:** ![azgar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@azgar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/azgar)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-upload-doesnt-work-in-production-mode/57610/5 "2006-04-12T16:25:58Z")
ok i figured it out. basically i had uploaded my local /public/doc folder to the production server. so file\_column was throwing up the errors because it didn’t like that the folders it was going to create already existed. hopefully posting this up will help save time for anyone else who gets baffled by this error. ---
**Author:** ![azgar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@azgar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/azgar)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-upload-doesnt-work-in-production-mode/57610/6 "2006-04-12T16:10:34Z")
it is the file\_column plugin you are right and it works fine in other areas of my application. the file upload works fine locally on my windows machine in development mode. it’s just the move to production onto the linux server when it breaks. permissions are set at 775 for all folders i can see are involved in the upload process. the file gets saved to /public/doc/filename/ID