Moving avatars and attachments from database to file system

[Disco_Dave]

Hi Guys

I done the above but for the live of me, I can't find where to correct the paths so that the profile pics and avatars show. Any of you guys mite no where I'm going wrong?

Ended up moving it back to the database to get them to show again.

Dave

 

[Max Taxable]

I did this too, had the same issue but never got it worked out myself.

 

[Disco_Dave]

There must be a way

 

[Max Taxable]

There must be a way

Yep and I think you are asking on the correct site to get the answer.

 

[CharlieDelta]

Avatars are currently being served from the filesystem at ./customavatars
Profile pictures are currently being served from the filesystem at ./customprofilepics
Signature pictures are currently being served from the filesystem at ./signaturepics

Attachments are currently being stored in the filesystem at ../attachments

 

[Ozzy47]

Attachments are currently being stored in the filesystem at ../attachments

That has two periods, it should be one.

 

[CharlieDelta]

Not necessarily. Depends where you have it located. In my case it is two periods.

 

[Disco_Dave]

Avatars are currently being served from the filesystem at ./customavatars
Profile pictures are currently being served from the filesystem at ./customprofilepics
Signature pictures are currently being served from the filesystem at ./signaturepics

Attachments are currently being stored in the filesystem at ../attachments

Yes this what it says ok, but non of the images show.

 

[Ozzy47]

IIRC after moving them you have to rebuild them in maintenance, did you do that?

 

[Disco_Dave]

IIRC after moving them you have to rebuild them in maintenance, did you do that?

Yes [MENTION=1]Ozzy47[/MENTION] First thing I did. It's like you need to re-eneter the file paths somewhere. But I couldn't seem to find anywhere to do that..

 

[Ozzy47]

Did you ensure all the 3 directories file permission are set to to "777"?

 

[Disco_Dave]

Did you ensure all the 3 directories file permission are set to to "777"?

Yes Ozzy...

 

[Ozzy47]

Ok then the last thing I can think of is, safe mode must be turned off to store these in the file system.

You can see if it is off or on by going to Maintenance --> View PHP Info

 

[Disco_Dave]

I'll check that now....



Safe mode is off.

 

[Ozzy47]

Weird, then I am unfortunately at a loss.

 

[Disco_Dave]

No worries [MENTION=1]Ozzy47[/MENTION], it's not really a biggie.

 

[Ozzy47]

Perhaps ask on vB.org, describe everything we have been over in this thread, and maybe someone else will have a idea. I wish I knew, but I have exhausted any reasons I have come across for that to happen.

 

[Disco_Dave]

I think it may be to do with us having a default avatar for registered members, they do have an option to upload their own. But if they don't it's set to the default one. This is the only one I was having problems with, everyone that had uploaded their own worked when transferring them from the database to file system.

 

[Ozzy47]

How are you setting the default avatar for the members?

 

[Disco_Dave]

I use this mod [MENTION=1]Ozzy47[/MENTION] Default Avatar - vBulletin.org Forum