New forum URL, attachments not working

[87accordlxi]

We recently changed our forum location from http://oursite.com to http://oursite.com/forum. Therefore, the attachment links that have been posted on the board in the past are looking in the wrong place for the images. I tried updating one link and insert the "/forum" in there, but it still doesn't work. Is there any way I can restore the old attachments that have already been posted?

[Floris]

With posted attachments do you mean with attachments added to a post through the attachment manager, or with people remote linking to existing attachments by either pasting the full url or use the [attach] bbcode?

Are attachments stored in the database or in the file system?

Did you try rebuilding attachments from the update counters (admincp > maintenance > update counters)?

What is the error you are getting when trying to view an attachment?

Did you edit the admincp>vboptions>vboptions> site url details to point to the new location?

[87accordlxi]

With posted attachments do you mean with attachments added to a post through the attachment manager, or with people remote linking to existing attachments by either pasting the full url or use the [attach] bbcode?

Attachments added to a post with the attachment manager.

Are attachments stored in the database or in the file system?

File system.

Did you try rebuilding attachments from the update counters (admincp > maintenance > update counters)?

I've rebuilt the attachment thumbs and for every one it went through, it said "Error: Attachment Missing"

What is the error you are getting when trying to view an attachment?

Warning: fopen(/home2/geez/www/attachments/2/4/232.attach): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /attachment.php on line 168

See, I don't think it recognizes the /forum URL change.

ALSO, when I currently try to upload an attachment, it gives this error:

Could not create file system directory to hold your attachment.

Did you edit the admincp>vboptions>vboptions> site url details to point to the new location?

Yes.

[Floris]

It sounds like vBulletin has an option to point to the attachment path. And perhaps you didn't update this. I have no experience with attachments in the file system though.

[Steve Machol]

Does this directory exist?

/home2/geez/www/attachments/2/4/

[87accordlxi]

Does this directory exist?

/home2/geez/www/attachments/2/4/

No, but that does give me the idea of moving the attachments back over to the old location so that there will be a /home2/geez/www/attachments/2/4/ folder and the proper files will be in it. I'll try that.

*edit*
It worked! The attachments are back, but in threads where attachments were wrapped with IMG tags to display them in-line, we have to go and manually edit every link to include the /forum. But there's no other way to get around that.

[xrayhead]

I have the same problem as this (But I have same URL before and after server move) I have checked and double checked with a working test site I have and all is the same (IE admin options). I have just updated from 3.0 to 3.5.3 as well and when I try to run the rebuild thumbnails i get the message


Building Attachment Thumbnails
If you receive a fatal error or if the process seems to hang, you will need to delete the last attachment listed on the screen then refresh this window.

Processing: Attachment : (jpg) [366] (Post : [4767] ) Error: Attachment Missing
Processing: Attachment : (jpg) [369] (Post : [4791] ) Error: Attachment Missing
Processing: Attachment : (gif) [375] (Post : [4932] ) Error: Attachment Missing
Processing: Attachment : (jpg) [378] (Post : [4964] ) Error: Attachment Missing

This is the properties of "(jpg) [378]" above
http://www.mysite.com/vboard/attachment.php?attachmentid=378&d=1057005907

My attachment directory is located at http://www.mysite.com/vboard/attachments

Also when I try to upload an attachment, it starts the upload and halfway through the window go's to the default IE page "This page can not be displayed".

I have also CHMOD the attachment dir and all sub dir’s to 777

This upgrade has taked me a week with all the problems I have had and I’m at the point of the wife divorcing me.

Please help!

[xrayhead]

Ok if anyone else has this problem I just located the issue. Go to Admincp -> Attachments --> attachment Storage Type and then make sure you Forum Path is correct. As I had moved servers mine was wrong and needed changing!

Xray

[xrayhead]

Ok..... This sucks, when I change it to the new directory it gives me the following messege;

We attempted to write a test file to [B]/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/vboard/attachments[/B], but we were unsuccessful. Please verify that the web server has write/delete permissions for this path.

And yes I did CHMOD ALL dir's ect to 777. I even went into the control pannel in Plesk to check the permissions!!

I can even see the test foulder thet vb creates via my FTP program.

This is to much....

[xrayhead]

Ok I just tryed to do this with my test site and I think I am well shagged now, it says..... Your Server has PHP's SAVE_MODE enabled. You can not move attachments to files.....bla..bla...bla...

Now I have my new site upgraded with all my files stuck in a no exsistant file location.

Any ideas..

[Floris]

If your attachments are in one folder, and you move your forum..
couldn't you just move your forum/attachments to /attachmetns (old location) ?

[xrayhead]

If your attachments are in one folder, and you move your forum..
couldn't you just move your forum/attachments to /attachmetns (old location) ?

No, I moved servers and the server path needed changing, but save mode was "ON"......

I went into SSH as ROOT and changed the php.ini to "save mode = off" and now it will allow me to change the settings (in the attachment manager).


I now have all my images back!!

Xray

I hope this post helps others, as I spent 5 hours trying to fix this one!!