# Problem with file uploads

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/problem-with-file-uploads/5243>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [November 30, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/problem-with-file-uploads/5243 "2006-11-30T05:42:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![stoner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stoner](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/stoner)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/problem-with-file-uploads/5243/1 "2006-11-30T05:42:03Z")

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I'm trying to write a simple file upload form. The upload form is a view like this:

\<%= start\_form\_tag( { :action=\>'upload' }, :multipart =\> true) %\> \<p\>Upload File: \</p\> \<%= file\_field('upfile', 'data') %\> \<%= submit\_tag('Upload') %\> \<%= end\_form\_tag %\>

The controller has upload defined, and there is an upload.rhtml file in the correct spot. However Post attempts to the upload action fail with a 404 error. The strange thing is, GET works perfectly fine (the 500 error is due to a list in the upload view being undefined due to the lack of expected POST data). Here are the results of a submission of my form, followed by the results of a direct browser access.

"POST /connect/upload HTTP/1.1" 404 291 "GET /connect/upload HTTP/1.1" 500 7688

Anyone have any ideas why this may be happening? I'm using rails 1.1.6 with Ruby 1.8.4, on a CENTOS 4.3 (Fedora Clone) box.