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ColdFusion error when uploading files: The files upload action requires forms to use enctype="multipart/form-data".

The following code fails and shows the error output in the title. What the heck is going on? Thanks for considering this.

<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
      Select a file:
      <input type="file" name="fileUpload">
      <input type="submit" value="Upload File">
</form>

<cffile action="upload"
accept = "application/pdf,application/msword"
filefield="fileUpload"
destination="e:\wwwroot\cmis\cmisfiles\security\upload\"
result="FileUploadedYes">

                          <cfdump var="#FileUploadedYes#">

gdemaria

I would look at your view-> source on your browser, perhaps you have more than one form and they are nested somehow?

What you are showing should work, but I suspect it is not your actual code..

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mchristopher

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<CFDUMP VAR="#FORM#"> C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\runtime\work\Catalina\localhost\tmp\neotmp6530038827429928089.tmp
Yet, the file does not exist in that location.
So, I need to dig in some more and provide greater detail. Will do tomorrow. Thanks.

_agx_

That's just a temporary location where files are stored before cffile upload is executed. To find out where the file was uploaded, dump your cffile result attribute instead. CFFile returns a structure with a bunch of variables, such as serverFile, serverDirectory, etcetera.


<cffile action="upload" .... result="FileUploadedYes">

<cfdump var="#FileUploadedYes#">

mchristopher

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Quick and clear answer. Follow up assistance helped too.
Thank you!

ColdFusion error when uploading files: The files upload action requires forms to use enctype=&quot;multipart/form-data&quot;.

ColdFusion error when uploading files: The files upload action requires forms to use enctype="multipart/form-data".