title: Cannot post php file - file upload
body: <p>I have the following files (html and php) and am able to run php on my server, and yet I keep getting "CANNOT POST /fileUpload.php when I click upload. Any ideas about whats going on would be appreciated. Thanks</p>
  
  <p>(Upload.html)</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  &lt;form action="fileUpload.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"&gt;
      Select image to upload:
      &lt;!--&lt;input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="500"&gt; --&gt;
      &lt;input type="file" name="fileToUpload" id="fileToUpload"&gt;
      &lt;input type="submit" value="Upload Image" name="submit"&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(fileUpload.php)</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  $target_dir = "uploads/";
  $target_file = $target_dir . basename($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["name"]);
  $uploadOk = 1;
  $imageFileType = pathinfo($target_file,PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
  // Check if image file is a actual image or fake image
  if(isset($_POST["submit"])) {
      $check = getimagesize($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["tmp_name"]);
      if($check !== false) {
          echo "File is an image - " . $check["mime"] . ".";
          $uploadOk = 1;
      } else {
          echo "File is not an image.";
          $uploadOk = 0;
      }
  }
  // Check if file already exists
  if (file_exists($target_file)) {
      echo "Sorry, file already exists.";
      $uploadOk = 0;
  }
  // Check file size
  if ($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["size"] &gt; 500000) {
      echo "Sorry, your file is too large.";
      $uploadOk = 0;
  }
  // Allow certain file formats
  if($imageFileType != "jpg" &amp;&amp; $imageFileType != "png" &amp;&amp; $imageFileType != "jpeg"
  &amp;&amp; $imageFileType != "gif" ) {
      echo "Sorry, only JPG, JPEG, PNG &amp; GIF files are allowed.";
      $uploadOk = 0;
  }
  // Check if $uploadOk is set to 0 by an error
  if ($uploadOk == 0) {
      echo "Sorry, your file was not uploaded.";
  // if everything is ok, try to upload file
  } else {
      if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["tmp_name"], $target_file)) {
          echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES["fileToUpload"]["name"]). " has been uploaded.";
      } else {
          echo "Sorry, there was an error uploading your file.";
      }
  }
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>