fantasyteamadvice Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 I started using ip.board last year on my site (http://fantasyteamadvice.com/forums) and for a while it ran perfectly. We ended up switching hosts (now with dreamhost) and for some reason, the image uploader/photo editor always seems to return an error. It looks like using gravatar still works, but I need to figure out how to fix the photo editor so that new users can upload a photo to their account. Any ideas? I don't internet so good.. so try to keep it simple for a noob like me :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiwa Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 What error is returned? That would be immensely helpful in narrowing down where the issue may be... It could be a server level issue, or a mis-configured parameter... As it was working on your old host, I'm leaning toward it being a hosting issue. But the error would help determine that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasyteamadvice Posted April 29, 2014 Author Share Posted April 29, 2014 I have seen a number of different errors. The most common one seems to be "Failed to set a new photo" with no real explanation as to why Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasyteamadvice Posted April 29, 2014 Author Share Posted April 29, 2014 A couple of times I have seen The file selected is too large. Max 50kb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasyteamadvice Posted April 29, 2014 Author Share Posted April 29, 2014 Think I just figured it out.. finally saw the error message that says photo directory is not writable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiwa Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Make sure you update your upload path... ACP > System Settings > General Configuration > Path to 'Upload' directory... just beneath the setting IP.Board will tell you what it thinks the path should be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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