Avatars not working

joshribakoff

All of the sudden my forums show a broken image for my avatar http://vehiclefits.com/forums/
I went to re-upload an avatar and selected 50KB jpeg, it says: "You cannot save images of this type (2)."

Where would I start to debug this?

peregrine

Welcome to the Community.

read the tutorial on

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/22666/how-to-upload-music-sound-and-movie-files

and read this at some point - it will be helpful

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/23130/forum-post-ettikett-etiquette

it is all related to your problem.

and post the config statements you have related to uploads

joshribakoff

So I removed the following nginx rule designed to stop hotlinking:

location ~*.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png)$ {

    #       valid_referers none blocked vehiclefits.com *.vehiclefits.com;
    #        if ($invalid_referer) {
    #               return   403;
    #       }
    #}

That rule did not break any images anywhere on my site, except Vanilla forums. It worked exactly as intended otherwise. It also only blocked the image avatar & not the theme files.

However the image still appears broken on my profile edit page, and it still doesn't let users upload a new avatar, instead saying "cannot save images of this type (2)" - what is the significance of the (2)? That is not a very friendly error message. Are jpegs in fact blocked? If so what formats are allowed? etc..

peregrine

@joshribakoff

in addition to this

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/194484/#Comment_194484

check your phpinfo.

this plugin allows you to view phpinfo in dashboard

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/versioncheck-plugin

look at the settings for gd - check if everything is enabled correctly for jpeg support.

gd

GD Support  enabled 
JPEG Support    enabled