avatar URL question

[amart79196]

RUNNING: 5.5.4 patch2

I currently have (I don't think by choice) the avatars on my forum being stored in the database. I wanted to move these to the filesystem but am having a difficult time achieving this goal.

The only two entries that I can edit to made this change is on the page titled "User Picture Manager".

For the first box, "Avatar File Path", I have placed a folder, which is chmod 777 called "customavatars" in my forums/core/ folder. I have entered it in the box as: /home/sitelink/public_html/forums/core/customavatars

For the second box "URL to avatars"I put in that box "/forums/customavatars"

When I press GO, all the avatars on the site disappear.

Since they disappeared, I went and told it to go back to the database and hit GO for that. This brought back all the avatars to now be visible in the forum.


Im assuming that it must be something that I'm entering in either of these two boxes that are causing the issue, and probably the "URL to avatars" box in particular. I have tried a few different ways to enter the URL, but still get the same results. Should I be putting www.mysite.com/forums/core/customavatars or https://www.mysite.com/forums/core/customavatar or something something totally different? My confusion on the exact answer here is why I feel my problem lies in the second box "URL to avatars".

Any help and guidance is greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance!

[Wayne Luke]

The system assumes you will be storing custom avatars as a sub-directory of /core/. It automatically adds this to the variables. For:

• Custom Avatar Path put ./customavatars
• URL to avatars put customavatars

This directory needs to be accessible to the Web Browser so it needs to be able to read and write to the directory. Plus you cannot have any .htaccess file denying access to the files in this directory or the /core/ parent.

[amart79196]

Thank you, that worked great!