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Hi all, just experimenting with uploading a file to my local web server in preparation for a task I have and I'm having problems uploading a very small file - no errors it just doesn't arrive at the server, the directory permissions on the server ( I changed them whilst troubleshooting ) are read / write for the whole world ( it's an Apache server ) so I'm asking for help - downloading files works perfectly.
Here is what I've tried

C#
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace DownloadFile
{
    class DownloadFile
    {
        WebClient client;

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            String URLRoot = @"http://10.10.1.11/Downloads/Data/";
            String UploadFname = "File.txt";
            String Msg = "This is headed for the server";

            File.WriteAllText(UploadFname,Msg);

            String UploadFullPath = Path.Combine(URLRoot,UploadFname);

            DownloadFile df = new DownloadFile();
            df.client = new WebClient();
            
            if (File.Exists(UploadFname))
            {
                 df.client.UploadFile(UploadFullPath, UploadFname);
            }
            df.client.Dispose();
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}


What I have tried:

As shown in the code above
Posted
Updated 24-Feb-16 2:30am
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 24-Feb-16 7:22am    
What have to be 30 letters?
pkfox 24-Feb-16 7:23am    
The question and what have you tried :-)
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 24-Feb-16 7:49am    
Oh! Ha!
I didn't got it how 30 connected to all your code...
Do you have a HTTP request log there? Maybe there is an error in it?
Why do you complicate things with that DownloadFile.client combination instead of declaring a local WebClient?
Try new Uri(new Uri(@"http://10.10.1.11/Downloads/Data/"), UploadFname) instead of Path.Combine...
pkfox 24-Feb-16 8:29am    
new Uri(new Uri(@"http://10.10.1.11/Downloads/Data/"), UploadFname) don't know what you mean by that ? , you have two uri's in there

Edit - oh I see it creates a new URi - I've tried it though ( and got rid of the class complication ) and still no joy - and still no errors
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 24-Feb-16 8:37am    
Path.Combine will handle your strings like local paths, with \...
Uri will combine them as...URI, with /

Uri base = new Uri(@"http://10.10.1.11/Downloads/Data/");
Uri taget = new Uri(base, UploadFname);

1 solution

You misunderstand what UploadFile does. It doesn't save the file to the target server, it simply POSTs the file to the url as if it had been a form submission;

HTML
<form action="upload.aspx">
    <input type="file" name="myfile"/>
</form>


So the url you "upload" to has to be a page that can read the files posted to it and save them.

WebClient.UploadFile Method (String, String) (System.Net)[^]
 
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pkfox 24-Feb-16 8:54am    
Ah ! that would explain it thanks ( I've not done much Web stuff ) so what would be the way to upload a file ? ( there is no ftp server on the box )
F-ES Sitecore 24-Feb-16 8:55am    
Write an upload page in php that you can post to and have that page save the file.
pkfox 24-Feb-16 9:27am    
Ok thanks that's beyond me at the moment as I've never done any Web stuff

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