UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Users can´t change avatars

Ever since I moved my 6.4.1 board to a new server, my users can´t change their avatars.

I suppose this could have something to do with file rights, but how do I fix this?

I use a linux server. Can I log in via SSH and run a chmod command on the entire file catalog to set this right?

If that is possible, what settings should I use?

Yeah, make sure the permissions and ownership is correct on your new server for the avatar directory.

Try the permissions at 777 and the ownership should be your current web users. Sometimes these get switched to "nobody" in a mod.

I would try:

chmod -R 777 avatardirectory

to fix permissions.

If you need to play with ownership - you can try

chown -R youruser:youruser avatardirectory

Yes, but sometimes 777 is not enough. In the past I use a server who run Confixx. This server set the files writen by server itself to the owner 'wwwrun' and not to my name 'web99'. To find out wich owner is used, to the directorycheck from adminpanel and look which owner got the testfile. Then change all files in Avatars, Attachments and logfiles directory to this owner.

Take care for any file that was generated from the admin panel such as stylesheets and languages files. Check out the ownership and permissions of those files too.

If you run PhotoPost do this for every thumbnail and midsize picture.

Then you'd need to change them to the owner that is writing them - the web user (in your case 'wwwrun') that should allow users to change their avatars. Sometimes things get uploaded as 'nobody' so in certain situations you won't be able to modify files like this after they've been uploaded, if the scripts are running as 'nobody' or another user which doesn't have permission to modify files in your webspace you'll be out of luck.

Looks like chmod -R 777 fixed it!


Thanks!