Magento "Unable to list current working directory"

Question

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I am trying to set up table rates in Magento 1.6.2.0. The problem occurs when I try to upload the file with table rates (CSV-file). Then the error "Unable to list current working directory" appears and I can't go any further.

TMP, Media and Var folders have perm.777.

I have read everything there was to find on the Internet on this problem - many seem to have had this problem but I have yet to see a solution.

Note: Probably not very relevant, but I am on Unoeuro hosting on a shared serverspot.

Answer 1

With some extensions (Wyomind Simple Google Shopping) the error shows up when var/tmp is missing in Magento directory structure.

Answer 2

The most popular reason of this problem - wrong permissions for media directory. It should be writeable by web server. More information can be checked here.

Answer 3

Look to your php.ini and find upload_tmp_dir option (or use echo ini_get('upload_tmp_dir') in your code. Seems like PHP can't list files in this directory where apache uploads files. I'm afraid you can't change permissions of this folder on shared hosting.