File upload - no errors but no file

Hello, all. I am trying to use the Manager to upload pdf files to my site using MODx 0.9.5 (Ubuntu 7.0.4 - Feisty). I go to Resources / Manage Files. I then click on assets and then docs. I click on Browse and select my file. It shows up in the list with an X in the check box. I click on Upload file and receive no error messages yet the file does not appear in the file list and is not in the directory if I check from the command line.

The directory shows writable in the File Manager. It has the same permissions as the images directory to which I have successfully uploaded images. Here is the directory listing:

drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2007-03-27 19:11 cache
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2007-03-31 00:35 css
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2007-05-21 13:22 docs
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2007-03-27 19:11 export
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2007-03-27 19:11 files
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2007-03-27 19:11 flash
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2007-05-18 11:50 images
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2007-03-27 19:11 import
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 71 2007-03-27 19:11 index.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2007-03-27 19:11 js
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2007-03-27 19:11 media
drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 2007-03-27 19:11 modules
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 2007-03-27 19:11 plugins
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2007-03-27 19:11 site
drwxr-xr-x 9 www-data www-data 4096 2007-04-16 11:57 snippets
drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 2007-03-27 19:11 templates

What am I doing wrong? Thanks - John

I have subsequently noticed that in contradiction to the documentation, files go in the files and not the docs directory. However, it still doesn’t work, i.e., if I manually copy the file into files, it is available in the link dialog but if I try to upload using the File Manager, it fails as previously described. Thanks - John

I have got the same problem. I don’t know if that comforts you.

What’s your LAMP setup like? What versions of Apache, MySQL, and PHP are you using? Also, how is PHP setup with Apache? CGI or module? Is Apache running under the www-data user/group? That can have an impact on things. Also, it looks like the directories are only writable by the www-data user (755). Probably need to make it writable to the group as well (775) or perhaps just make the directories you need writable to everyone (777). If this is just a local test server you can probably get away with that.

Jeff