Problems when posting attachments: The requested URL could not be retrieved

[Pogo]

Forum: http://www.bonjovi.de/vorum/


When trying to post an attachment together with the post nothing happens and after a while the "The requested URL could not be retrieved" error appears.

After trying for nearly two days I have no idea what is wrong. So my last hope is that I can get some good advice here.

Please have a look and tell me if you have any ideas.

I am asking in the name of the site admin because his english is not good enough to explain this problem. If needed I can open a support ticket on monday.

[Steve Machol]

PHP has safe mode enabled. Did you enable this in the Admin CP and specify a safe mode temp directory that's been chmod'd to 777?

[Pogo]

Yes, I did. But it changed nothing.

[Steve Machol]

Fill out a support ticket at:

http://www.vbulletin.com/members/support_form.php

Be sure to include the login info to your Admin CP and FTP.

[Pogo]

Finally we avoided the error by disabling the check for duplicate attachments.

The attachment table has about 15400 records and is about 625 MB in size.

So the check for duplicates timeouts after a while.

[vBR]

Originally posted by Pogo
Finally we avoided the error by disabling the check for duplicate attachments.

The attachment table has about 15400 records and is about 625 MB in size.

So the check for duplicates timeouts after a while.

What exactly does check duplicates compare?

[Pogo]

Originally posted by vBR
What exactly does check duplicates compare?

It checks if the attachment that is to be uploaded is already in the database.

CP->Options->Attachments->Allow Duplicate Images

[vBR]

Originally posted by Pogo
It checks if the attachment that is to be uploaded is already in the database.

CP->Options->Attachments->Allow Duplicate Images

I understand that, but what does it look for?

File Name?
File size?
Image Dimensions?

[vBR]

Originally posted by s.molinari
It compares the userid and the contents of the file with what is in the database.

Scott

It has to read the whole damn history of attachments for that user bit-for-bit?
I'm not surprised it timed out.

[Freddie Bingham]

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...ght=duplicates

[Kier]

Although we have fixed this problem in vB3, we aren't going to do so for vB2. We simply recommend that boards with large amounts of attachments disable duplicate attachment checking until they get vB3 installed.