Upload means sending of data from a local system to a remote system such as a server or another client with the intent that the remote system should store a copy of the data being transferred.
Questions tagged [upload]
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How to set default umask for Tomcat webdav servlet?
The title says it all. I need Tomcat's webdav servlet to create files with rw-rw-r-- rights, but it keeps creating it as rw-r--r--. I tried to set up umask in /etc/profile, but it didn't help (although manualy created new files has desired…

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Nginx returning 408 error with XHR2 file uploads during mid-upload
A customer of mine is trying to upload a file to our remote nginx webserver via a form POST using XHR2 form data (and a cross-domain request with CORS). During mid-upload, the webserver returns a 408 and the ajax error handler halts processing as a…

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Nginx upload PUT and POST
I am trying to make nginx accept POST and PUT methods to upload files. I have compiled nginx_upload_module-2.2.0.
I can't find any how to. I simply want to use only nginx for this, no reverse proxy, no other backend and no php.
Is this…

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FTP uploading in BASH script
I need to upload the entire content of a directory /home/test to my ftp server, in a specific folder.
I will then schedule the script hourly via cron.
Any examples?
NB. consider that I'm on a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo (a debian box) and I can't install…

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Best Practice: Apache File Upload
I am looking for a soultion for trusted users to upload pdf files via html forms (with maybe php involved). This is quite a standard ubuntu linux server with apache 2.x and php 5.
I am wonderiung what are the benefits of the apache file upload…

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Nginx proxy timeout while uploading big files
I'm experiencing strange behaviour with Nginx. In my case Nginx acts as proxy to Jetty. Config below:
server {
listen 80;
client_header_timeout 3m;
client_body_timeout 3m;
send_timeout 3m;
client_max_body_size 5M;
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Automatically run a script on an uploaded FTP file
Is there a way to run a script over a file that has been uploaded on an FTP server.
I am running ProFTP on the server and would like to process the uploaded files immediately after they are uploaded. The ways I have currently thought of are
Cron…

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Why does Apache/PHP not apply default ACL to file uploads?
We have Posix ACLs set up on our webserver and everything works fine EXCEPT for file uploads from a web browser in which case the default ACL is not applied. Any reasons why this might be happening or suggestions?
ChrisWiegman
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WinSCP General failure uploading
I am trying to successfully upload a Multi Drupal site source code onto my var/www/html/ directory.
So far, I have uploaded everything but the sites folder. When I do try to upload it, it gets up to about 70-75 percent and then prompts this error…

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s3put fails with "Connection reset by peer" for large files
I can upload small files quite fine using the same commands, however whenever I try to upload a 5 GB file to S3 then the s3 script fails:
[backup]$ s3put --bucket john-murdoch-bucket --reduced --debug 2 --callback 100 data.tgz
/usr/bin/s3put:45:…

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Prevent large file upload with nginx
I'm serving my website using Nginx as web server.
I offer upload functionality to my users (they are allowed to submit pictures up to 5Mb) so I have the directive: client_max_body_size 5M; in my server config.
What I've noticed is that if I try to…

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SFTP files not showing upload date as last modification time
Some of the files we receive on our Redhat server are showing date different from upload date as the last modification time. For us the modification time is important as we classify files depending on date we receive it. Some of these file show…

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Convince System Administrator that File Uploads can be Okay?
To keep this as short as possible: It was recently brought to the attention of our system administrator (as this type of thing should be) that one of the requirements for our latest web-based project would be allowing customers to perform file…

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Our web-developers have a project that requires accepting file-uploads. What should I ensure is covered?
A recent project requires one of our websites to accept file uploads from (logged in) users (primarily images and possibly some video).
What are some (generic) things we need to take into account, check for, ensure, or calculate, as we bring this…

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WebDisk vs FTP - Whats better?
Whats faster, WebDisk of FTP? Can you modify perms via webdisk? Pros? Cons?

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