Getting ‘Missing a temporary folder.’ message uploading image

Had this problem too, and danoph’s instructions above worked perfectly for me. Fixed! Many thanks.

Nothing has worked here for me. My hosting is thru supanames- I am about to bin wordpress as there is not much point running a site you can’t upload photos to- help!, any other ideas anyone!?

That error is thrown by PHP and likely you will need to contact your host to have them specify a temporary directory (e.g. upload_tmp_dir in php.ini)

I took Michael H’s advice on this and contacted my host, as on this particular site I couldn’t see the php.ini file (it’s not always visible). I explained the issue and the helpful techie changed the file in less than a minute and all is fixed.

My WP installation was working fine.. and allowing me to upload file. But suddenly things changed. I started getting “Missing a temporary folder” when uploading images.

I went though the discussion above and all of them suggest changing php.ini file. I am asking why?.. it was working fine with the same settings. Suddenly what happened?

Also I am having some other WP installations in the same server, and none of them is having the issue.

Some one from the WP dev team please look into this… We are loosing our trust in WP.

I am hosting my site in Yahoo… the customer support I get from there is rather poor. So can never expect them to change php.ini for me.

BTW in my host phpinfo() says upload_tmp_dir=/tmp

dpapa, you’re a genius. I had to pay supanames ￡10 to setup a wordpress account last time, and then I still had to wait a month for them to fix it. That one paragraph just saved me time and money, fixed in seconds! Still had to create an uploads folder in wp-content, and give both uploads and tmp write access, but at least I started to get more meaningful error messages. ??

This fixed it for me:

1) create folders in your site root
/tmp
/wwwtmp

2) set folder permissions to 777

I had to edit the php.ini file, and I used danoph’s suggestion to find the path to /tmp that WordPress was using, in the wp-admin/includes/file.php I added
echo getcwd();
That gave me the very surprising path I had to put in the php.ini file. And it worked beautifully. Thank you, Danoph!