Attachments dir permissions prob

Started by Kithop, April 01, 2010, 09:54:53 PM

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Kithop

Trying to upload a new avatar icon and got:

'The attachments upload directory is not writable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved.'

Typically you need to either chown the attachments dir on the webserver to the same user that the Apache instance is running under, or at least in the same group and give the group rw perms on the folder (e.g. 'chmod -R ug+rw attachments' - or whatever the folder is called).  I'm sure it was working fine at some point, but maybe in an upgrade or something it got touched? :)

Edit: This also breaks uploading new Profile Pictures, and kind of in a bad way.  The name shows up, but the picture doesn't, so you can't delete the entry... see the 'SL Avatar' attempt here

Kithop

It looks like the My Pictures bit is fixed, but I still can't update my actual profile picture. <.<

Maoi Neko

I have not been able to upload or attach any pics myself. I thought it was maybe because of my OS (Ubuntu) or browser (Chrome) but I have no idea.