Question [K1.7] [J1.5.23] Avatar & Attachment upload failed

Hi Sozzled.

I can ensure you that all files and folders, especially tmp and media/kunena have the 755 permissions.

I am still unable to upload any files with these permissions.

I managed to get these errors to appear for a slight second, and got a printscreen. Hope this helps.

Thanks for that information. A quick search of Google helps to understand the cause and possible ways to overcome the "open_basedir restriction in effect. File... is not within the allowed path(s)" warning message.

You've probably set the open_basedir directive somewhere. That restricts PHP access to certain directories. Check php.ini and your Apache config files (http.conf, .htaccess, etc). One possibility might be to replace any custom .htaccess file that you might have created with the standard Joomla version (see Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for tips on how to do that.

Hi Sozzled.

Thanks for that.

I found this in my php.ini

open_basedir=/home/xxxxxxx/public_html

So I removed it and can now upload files and avatars without any issues.

Thanks.

Thanks for letting us know how you fixed this issue. In most case, the inability to upload avatar images is not a Kunena problem (or something wrong with the design of Kunena) and, in most of those cases, the issue does involves something with the site configuration. I'm glad we were able to point you in the right direction.

I take it nobody took the time to read the joomla docs you have your site location defined using base dir but you have not set a tmp (temp) directory to use for uploads of files before there moved to the correct location.

docs.joomla.org/Security_Checklist_2_-_Hosting_and_Server_Setup

open_basedir = /home/users/you/public_html:/tmp

notice the :/tmp is your temp directory.