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I have an asset directory which is set to

{basePath}assets/images/products/

I know my basePath is right as it works on other asset sources.

My entry upload location for products is set to:

{slug}/static/studio

However I get the following error when uploading assets:

upload failed. error uploading the file: The folder "/var/www/html/assets/images/products/carambola-earrings/static/studio/" does not exist

I have tried 'updating asset indexes'. But no luck. I have also double checked that the assets/images/products/ directory exists.

I am also checked the permissions are set to '775' for '/var/www/html'

Any help greatly appreciated :)

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  • Is the Asset field you're setting the {slug}/static/studio upload location inside of a Matrix field or stand-alone? – Brad Bell Sep 29 '17 at 18:10
  • Also, who is the user:group owner of /var/www/html/assets and what user:group is your web server running as? – Brad Bell Sep 29 '17 at 18:11
  • The asset field is not in a matrix.. its just a regular entry field in the product. The server is running as root. here is the folder permissions: drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 29 08:31 products my assets folder is set to drwxrwxr-x 9 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 20 10:31 assets – ToddPadwick Sep 30 '17 at 10:25
  • Any reason your web server isn't running as www-data:www-data? That'll probably solve your issue so you don't have to open up permissions to 777. – Brad Bell Oct 1 '17 at 22:41
  • I have now tried changing all to www-data:www-data by using the following command. sudo chown www-data:www-data -R html still no luck though unfortunately. – ToddPadwick Oct 2 '17 at 8:02
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Ok, so I have figured out why this wasn't working. When clicking on reset asset indexes It was always popping up an alert saying that another asset was missing. I already knew this, and it was something I intended on dealing with later. So I clicked OK and as the progress indicator continued to run along with the Tick Icon, I assumed it continued to update everything else, skipping over the error. But it turns out this isn't the case. The function halts at the error. So once I fixed this other missing asset, everything worked. It is a little misleading having the progress animation and tick icon still work when in fact nothing is happening. thanks for all your help. :)

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  • Thanks great find, ridiculous issue, terrible error reporting – joep Apr 5 '18 at 9:38

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