title: Creating HTML/PHP Form to allow users upload basic files on my shared GoDaddy Hosting
body: <p>I am using the following HTML form to upload a simple image file on GoDaddy Shared Linux PHP Hosting:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form action="./upload_ar.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"&gt;
     &lt;p&gt;
        &lt;label for="file"&gt;Select a file:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="file" name="userfile" id="file"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
        &lt;button&gt;Upload File&lt;/button&gt;
     &lt;p&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The HTML form above then calls the following PHP script:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
     // Configuration - Your Options
        $allowed_filetypes = array('.jpg','.gif','.bmp','.png', '.txt'); // These will be the types of file that will pass the validation.
        $max_filesize = 524288; // Maximum filesize in BYTES (currently 0.5MB).
        $upload_path = 'files/'; // The place the files will be uploaded to (currently a 'files' directory).
  
     $filename = $_FILES['userfile']['name']; // Get the name of the file (including file extension).
     $ext = substr($filename, strpos($filename,'.'), strlen($filename)-1); // Get the extension from the filename.
  
     // Check if the filetype is allowed, if not DIE and inform the user.
     if(!in_array($ext,$allowed_filetypes))
        die('The file you attempted to upload is not allowed.');
  
     // Now check the filesize, if it is too large then DIE and inform the user.
     if(filesize($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name']) &gt; $max_filesize)
        die('The file you attempted to upload is too large.');
  
     // Check if we can upload to the specified path, if not DIE and inform the user.
     if(!is_writable($upload_path))
        die('You cannot upload to the specified directory, please CHMOD it to 777.');
  
     // Upload the file to your specified path.
     if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'],$upload_path . $filename))
           echo 'Your file upload was successful, view the file &lt;a href="' . $upload_path . $filename . '" title="Your File"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;'; // It worked.
        else
           echo 'There was an error during the file upload.  Please try again.'; // It failed :(.
  
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have already create the folder and set the permission to '777'. However, when I upload a file, I get this error message:</p>
  
  <p><strong>There was an error during the file upload. Please try again.</strong></p>
  
  <p>The error above corresponds to the last line of PHP script. I have no idea why it keeps failing.</p>
  
  <p>Could you please help?</p>