This error might have occured on WordPress for you: “Image has failed to upload due to an error – Missing a temporary folder”.
Reason?
- It may be a permission issue for the php temporary folder
- The php temp folder may not exist.
Solution?
- Find the php.ini file for your webhost.
- Locate the temp folder
- Create the temp folder if it does not exist
- Give it proper permissions
In my case, I had transferred my site transhost, and hence this folder was actually missing.
My php.ini file (generated by i-mscp) was at this location: /var/www/fcgi/mysite/php5/php.ini
Once php.ini file was located, I needed to find the temp folder used by php:
#grep -in 'upload_tmp_dir' /var/www/fcgi/mydomain/php5/php.ini 875:upload_tmp_dir = "/var/www/virtual/mydomain//phptmp/"
Since this folder was missing, I created it and provided proper permissions and then restarted apache2:
#mkdir "/var/www/virtual/joel.co.in/phptmp/" #chmod 755 "/var/www/virtual/joel.co.in/phptmp/" #chown -R vu2003.www-data "/var/www/virtual/joel.co.in/phptmp/" #service apache2 restart
Now, I could upload media files again.