When I uploaded a document, I am getting the error "Parameter name: Path must be absolute". What could be the reason?

[vijaymythili]

[hettervik]

Hi,

Did you find out the reason why this happens? We've tried moving the file to different directories before uploading it, and also we've tried renaming the file. Those things seems to have no effect. Did you find a solution?

[MuS]

I recently saw this happening again and after the user changed the app context and retried to add a file it worked. Did you tried to add data in a different app as well?

[hettervik]

No, we haven't tried that, but we did find another solution. Instead of using the "upload" function, we used the "monitor" function. We selected the same file as we had previously tried to upload and told Splunk to only index the file once (as opposite to continuously monitoring it). Technically it would be the same as using the previously tried upload function, right? Nevertheless, it worked.

Our conclusion is that there's a bug in the upload function.

[boshea]

I get the same error - uploading via the 'Add data' UI from a Mac & choosing a local file via the UI or dragging/dropping into the 'drop your data file here'.

As far as I can tell, I don't have control over the path that is sent in the POST; tried 'edit & resend' to add the full local path, but that didn't work either (bad request)

[MuS]

Hi vijaymythili,

this message usually occurs if one tries to use a Windows path on *nix or Mac or visa versa.
You cannot use \\servername\foo\boo\baz or c:\foo\boo as input on *nix and also you cannot use /foo/boo/baz on Windows, so check the used path.

Hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

[boshea]

How does one change the path when uploading via the Add Data UI?

[boshea]

Never mind - moving the data file to ~/Desktop and dragging & dropping that seemed to work - doing the same thing with the file nested several directories deep did not work