Avatars URL blocked; must use other domain?

[iadzemovic]

Hi guys-

I need some assistance; I have collected avatars in a thread for my forum and I had put together a guide how-to use any of the avatars by taking the img-URL. But trying to do that I get this error:

 

How can I enable people to use the avatars on the server?

 

[Morrigan]

@iadzemovic You may want to check your Link filtering settings:

Dashboard > Settings > Posting > Links tab

[iadzemovic]

These are my settings, nothing appears blocked

[Morrigan]

@iadzemovic what applications/plugins do you have?

[iadzemovic]

nothing really. just installed a newly bought system

[Morrigan]

Are you self hosted or cloud hosted?

[iadzemovic]

selfhosting i have my own hosting plan

[Morrigan]

Okay I figured it out. Remote images are only permitted to be from a different domain. So it can be a subdomain like "avatars.sunsetbeachonline.com" or another website but you can't host the images from the domain you host the forum on apparently. I tested it on a personal install and this happened to me too. @iadzemovic

[iadzemovic]

That's so wasteful. I have a whole gallery of avatars on the server for people to use. they have to upload them and waste space for something that is up already with a URL

[Morrigan]

If you self host and you have them all in the same folder (avatars) just create a subdomain called "Avatars" and use that folder.

It will become avatars.sunsetbeach.com/therestoftheurlstuff.png and will be still on your server.

I will note that even with remote URLs it downloads the image so that it can crop it so even using remote images isn't saving you space technically.

[iadzemovic]

is there any way to feature the avatar gallery in the profile settings to just click the avatar wanted and use it

[bfarber]

There is no built in avatar gallery I'm afraid, and when you use "import from URL" the image file is actually fully imported as a new attached file. We don't support remotely linked images, except for social networking service profile photos.