Images wont save to project folder - php

Question

I have an image upload index for a project. An link to the image is created and saved to a phpMyAdmin DB and the image is supposed to save to my /image folder in the project files. The index saves the link/directory access in the DB but the image itself is not saved. So essentially I have a link to an empty image in my image folder!
I had no issues with the code until I moved from a localhost to a blacknight server.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I have tried using BLOB instead of TEXT for images in the database and that has not worked.
I have given permissions to access that for Read/Write in FileZilla.
I have corrected all the DB connections and file paths.
<?php
// Create database connection
$db = mysqli_connect("*HOST*", "*USERNAME*", "*PASSWORD*", "*DB_NAME*");
// Initialize message variable
$msg = "";
// If upload button is clicked ...
if (isset($_POST['upload'])) {
// Get image name
$image = $_FILES['image']['name'];
// Get text
$image_text = mysqli_real_escape_string($db, $_POST['image_text']);
$regplate = $_POST['regplate'];
// image file directory
$target = "/wwwroot/*DOMAIN_NAME*/images/".basename($image);
$sql = "INSERT INTO images (regplate, image, image_text) VALUES ('$regplate', '$image', '$image_text')";
// execute query
mysqli_query($db, $sql);
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['image']['tmp_name'], $target)) {
$msg = "Image uploaded successfully";
}else{
$msg = "Failed to upload image";
}
}
$result = mysqli_query($db, "SELECT * FROM images");
?>
I expected that this line would submit the file into the /images folder
// image file directory
$target = "/wwwroot/*DOMAIN_NAME*/images/".basename($image);

Answer 1

No need of specifying full path to folder
<?php
// Create database connection
$db = mysqli_connect("*HOST*", "*USERNAME*", "*PASSWORD*", "*DB_NAME*");
// Initialize message variable
$msg = "";
// If upload button is clicked ...
if (isset($_POST['upload'])) {
// Get image name
$image = $_FILES['image']['name'];
// Get text
$image_text = mysqli_real_escape_string($db, $_POST['image_text']);
$regplate = $_POST['regplate'];
// image file directory
$target = "./images/".basename($image);
$sql = "INSERT INTO images (regplate, image, image_text) VALUES ('$regplate', '$image', '$image_text')";
// execute query
mysqli_query($db, $sql);
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['image']['tmp_name'], $target)) {
$msg = "Image uploaded successfully";
}else{
$msg = "Failed to upload image";
}
}
$result = mysqli_query($db, "SELECT * FROM images");
?>