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node.jsfileexpressuploadmulter
Kais Salha
Kais Salha

Reputation: 33

nodejs multer is getting req.file but not uploading it to destination

multer.js 

var path = require("path"),
multer = require("multer");

const storage = multer.diskStorage({
    destination: function(req, file, next){
        next(null, '../public/imgs/');
        return;
    },
    filename: function(req, file, cb){
        cb(null, file.fieldname + '-' + Date.now() + path.extname(file.originalname));
    }
});

const upload = multer({
    storage: storage
});

module.exports = upload;

router.js

//handle createPartner route
router.post("/partner/new", upload.single('image'), function(req, res){

  console.log(req.file);
  console.log(req.body);

  req.body.Partner["image"] ="/static/imgs/"+req.file.filename;

  req.body.Partner.body = req.sanitize(req.body.Partner.body);

  Partner.create(req.body.Partner, function(err, createdPartner){
      if(err){
          console.log(err);
          res.redirect("/admin/partner/new");
      }else{
          res.redirect("/partners");
      }
  });
});

I get the following console.log

{ fieldname: 'image',
  originalname: 'fb.png',
  encoding: '7bit',
  mimetype: 'image/png',
  destination: '../public/imgs/',
  filename: 'image-1521727739861.png',
  path: '../public/imgs/image-1521727739861.png',
  size: 21532 }
{ Partner: { name: 'test', bio: 'test', image: '', website: 'test' } }

so multer does get the file but it doesn't upload it to the destination! The permissions for /public and /public/imgs are 777. Everywhere I searched uses the other method for multer but that way I'll have to specify (single/multiple/any) in advance which isn't right.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 393

Answers (1)

Stretch0
Stretch0

Reputation: 9283

You need to include the absolute path as I mentioned in comments.

You can easily do this by utilising path.join like follows:

var path = require('path');
var dir = path.join(__dirname, '../public/imgs')

That will concatenate __dirname which is the absolute path of the current file with your images file.

Upvotes: 1

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