Uploading file with express-fileupload
You are pointing the directory where the file would go to, but you are not giving it a file name. I would say let the user decide the file name for the client side and add it to the path.
<input name="userFileName" type="text">//userFilename Here</input>var myFILENAME = req.body.userFilename startup_image.mv('/images/'+myFILENAME+'.jpg', ..) //myFILENAME needs to be added hereAlso please see Full Example in how to upload files with express-fileupload
UPDATE
I found solution to your problem you need to add __dirname to this line which will let the program know your current directory to your source code.
startup_image.mv(__dirname + '/images' , function(err) {..UPDATE 2
Here is my source code, if you want you can try it with this.
my html
<!DOCTYPE html><html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title></title> </head> <body> <form ref='uploadForm' encType="multipart/form-data" class="" action="/upload" method="post"> <input type="text" name="fileName" value=""><br> <input type="file" name="foo" value=""><br> <input type="submit" name="" value="upload!"> </form> </body></html>my main source
var express = require("express);var app = express();const fileUpload = require('express-fileupload');//npm install ejs, express, express-fileupload//middlewareapp.use(express.static(__dirname));app.set('view engine', 'ejs');app.use(fileUpload());app.get('/inputFile', function(req, res){ res.render('inputt');});app.post('/upload', function(req, res) { // The name of the input field (i.e. "sampleFile") is used to retrieve the uploaded file var startup_image = req.files.foo; var fileName = req.body.fileName; // Use the mv() method to place the file somewhere on your server startup_image.mv(__dirname + '/images/' + fileName + '.jpg' , function(err) { if(err){ console.log(err); }else{ console.log("uploaded");} }); });app.listen(7777);
using async/await style
in your server file do this
const fileUpload = require('express-fileupload'); app.use( fileUpload({ limits: { fileSize: 50 * 1024 * 1024 }, useTempFiles: true, // dir for windows PC tempFileDir: path.join(__dirname, './tmp'), }),);then in your controllers, do this
const file = req.files.filename; await file.mv(file.name); if (!file || Object.keys(req.files).length === 0) { return res.status(400).console.error('No files were uploaded.'); }
This solution is for non ejs and exporting modules solution:
<!DOCTYPE html><html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>File Upload</title> </head> <body> <form ref='uploadForm' encType="multipart/form-data" class="" action="/path/to/nodejs/upload/file" method="post"> <input type="file" name="my_file"><br> <input type="submit" name="" value="upload"> </form> </body></html>Now here is the NodeJS
const express = require("express");const app = express();const fileUpload = require('express-fileupload');app.use(fileUpload({ safeFileNames: true, preserveExtension: true }))app.post('/', function(req, res) { // The name of the input field (i.e. "sampleFile") is used to retrieve the uploaded file let the_file = req.files.my_file; the_file.mv('/path/to/html/uploads/up/' + the_file.name , function(err) { res.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"}); if(err){ console.log(err); res.write(err); res.end(); } else { console.log("uploaded"); res.write("upload of file "+the_file.name+" complete"); res.end(); } });});module.exports = app;