Question Avatar upload doesn't work

Hi Chris,

another importand directory is
/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/avatars

Regards

Thanks. I gave it a try and I still get the same problem. I even set each directory to 777 and that didn't help either. Not sure what else to try at the moment.

lakehousetech wrote:

Am I missing a permission setting in another directory that is important?

I'm not sure whether your problem is a permission setting or not but, in terms of Joomla, I suggest you read docs.joomla.org/What_are_the_recommended...ctory_permissions%3F

I'm familiar with the permissions settings in Joomla, and they are set correctly. No problems with any other functions. Avatars work flawlessly on localhost installation.

Could it possibly be a memory limit issue? Thanks again for the help.

I think you've already pointed to the cause of the problem in your earlier observation:

Am I missing a permission setting in another directory that is important?

I can't be sure of anything in this regard. The only suggestion I have to offer is to check and double-check each and every directory, sub-directory and file in you Joomla website. Perhaps you thought you'd changed them all, but maybe the changes weren't propagated recursively throughout the whole sub-directory structure?

I know what's happening.

Your version of PHP, if it's less than 5.2.1, does not support the function "sys_get_temp_dir".

What you can do as a fix if you don't want to compile 5.2.1 or higher and re-install, is you can put the following in about line 27 on the file

/components/com_kunena/template/default/plugin/myprofile/myprofile_avatar_upload.php

right after...

"require_once(KUNENA_PATH_LIB .DS. 'kunena.file.class.php');"

if ( !function_exists('sys_get_temp_dir')) {
function sys_get_temp_dir() {
if (!empty($_ENV)) { return realpath($_ENV); }
if (!empty($_ENV)) { return realpath( $_ENV); }
if (!empty($_ENV)) { return realpath( $_ENV); }
$tempfile=tempnam(uniqid(rand(),TRUE),'');
if (file_exists($tempfile)) {
unlink($tempfile);
return realpath(dirname($tempfile));
}
}
}

That will fix the problem in the mean time.

Cheers m8,

Jimmy