CodeIgniter: "The filetype you are attempting to upload is not allowed."

Question

I'm experiencing a very odd upload problem. Here's the relevant view file:

<form action="http://localhost/index.php/temp/upload/" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <fieldset>
        <input type="file" name="userfile"/>
        <input type="submit" value="Upload"/>
    </fieldset>
</form>

And here's my temp controller's upload() method:

public function upload()
{
    $config['upload_path']   = FCPATH . 'uploads' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
    assert(file_exists($config['upload_path']) === TRUE);
    $config['allowed_types'] = 'avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|jpg';
    $config['max_size']      = '0';

    $this->load->library('upload', $config);
    if ($this->upload->do_upload('userfile') === FALSE)
    {
        // Some error occured
        var_dump($this->upload->display_errors('', ''));
        var_dump($_FILES);
    }
    else
    {
        // Upload successful
        var_dump($this->upload->data());
    }
}

When I upload an AVI video, everything works fine. When I upload, say, a WMV video, I get the following var dumps:

string 'The filetype you are attempting to upload is not allowed.' (length=57)

array
  'userfile' => 
    array
      'name' => string 'wmv.wmv' (length=7)
      'type' => string 'video/x-ms-wmv' (length=14)
      'tmp_name' => string 'C:\wamp\tmp\php2333.tmp' (length=23)
      'error' => int 0
      'size' => int 83914

The "wmv" extension is being interpreted as the MIME type: video/x-ms-wmv. This should be fine since my config/mimes.php has the following:

'wmv' =>  array('video/x-ms-wmv', 'audio/x-ms-wmv')

It's a similar situation when I try uploading other files. So far, the only one that seems to work is my test AVI video.

Any ideas what might be wrong?

UPDATE 1:

One my machine, only AVI uploads. On another developer's machine, no files upload. On yet another developer's machine, all supported files upload. Are these browser or server issues?

Answer 1

You are using Firefox, aren't you?

You could try looking at system/libraries/Upload.php line 199:

$this->_file_mime_type($_FILES[$field]);

Change that line to:

$this->_file_mime_type($_FILES[$field]); var_dump($this->file_type); die();

Then do upload your .wmv file. It would show something like application/octet-stream or whatever. Add that to your mimes.php. Hope this help =)

Similar answer here

Some links:

• CodeIgniter forum's thread
• Mimetype corruption in Firefox
• Getting around IE’s MIME type mangling

Answer 2

$config["allowed_types"] ="*";

Answer 3

1. Upload your .wmv file to the server using FTP/SFTP/scp/etc where you run the CodeIgniter application

2. On the server where you have uploaded the .wmv file, execute the following PHP code

   <?php
   $file_path = 'CHANGE_THIS_TO_ABSOLUTE_FILE_PATH_THAT_YOU_HAVE_UPLOADED.wmv';
   $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME);
   $mime = finfo_file($finfo, $file_path);
   var_dump($mime);
   ?>
   

3. Save the code as mime.php

4. Run in the terminal - $ php mime.php
5. If it dumps any other value than you already have for wmv, append that value into wmv mime types.

Also check PHP_VERSION in other development machines. finfo_open is introduced in PHP 5.3. The development machine where upload is working may have an older version of PHP or it may have right mime type for the wmv.