[#XWIKI-530] Upload fails when xwiki.upload.tempdir is not set

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Upload fails when xwiki.upload.tempdir is not set

Created: 13/Dec/06 18:37 Updated: 06/Apr/09 19:55

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Date of First Response:	27/Apr/07 18:43
Resolution Date:	06/Apr/09 17:54

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The parameter xwiki.upload.tempdir is used to specify where to put files larger than the in-memory threshold. On some (linux) systems, if this path is not set, the upload action fails, throwing:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.xpn.xwiki.web.UploadAction.action(UploadAction.java:51)

This should be fixed by checking if the default location is writable, and providing a default writable path, like /tmp, or TOMCAT_HOME/temp on linux.

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Vincent Massol added a comment - 27/Apr/07 18:43

Note: There is also a wrong "Temporary directory not set" message that happens when the multipart/form-data mimetype is blocked. This has happened for example with Apache and mod_security. We need some better exception for this.

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Sergiu Dumitriu added a comment - 06/Apr/09 17:54

Apparently the commons-fileupload library was changed, so that it now defaults to using java.io.tmpdir whenever a custom directory is not provided. it's working fine now.

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Sergiu Dumitriu added a comment - 06/Apr/09 19:55

Actually this was fixed in rev. 3767, during a pretty massive cleanup of the plugin.