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Hello jeffmace,

What version of ExpressionEngine are you currently running? Are you on the latest, 2.4? I am not sure what 3.1.7 refers to.

Can you make sure the directory has the correct permissions set?

Thank you,

yes version 2.4 of ee2, 3.1.7 is the version of the forums

Hi jeffmace,

What about the file permissions? How are those looking?

Thanks,

just updated EE to version 2.5 and updated the discussion forum to version 1.8.  Permissions are good. I see the files updating there.  I am not seeing any images being created with the ‘_t.jpg’.  It doesn’t look like it’s generating the thumbnail at all.  Where is this done?

I have also tested that GD/GD2 support is working correctly and identified by the system.  Permissions in the forum attachment and cache folders are set to 777

Well i think i found my own answer.  For some reason, since this is on a windows server, it changes my path of

E:\inetpub\mysite.com\wwwroot\images\forum_attachments

to

E:/inetpub/mysite.com/wwwroot/images/forum_attachments/

I then put it back to this

E:\inetpub\mysite.com\wwwroot\images\forum_attachments/  <—- For some reason EE Still wants to make the last slash a forward slash.  Anyone know how to stop that?

Once i set it back to this, my thumbs were created again.

Hey jeffmace,

What version of ExpressionEngine are you using?

ExpressionEngine should not be changing the slash back.

Thank you,

just upgraded to the latest 2.5 and the forum is updated to the latest 3.1.8. 

I just went into the CP and this is exactly how it looks, minus the change of the domain directory name

E:\inetpub\mysite.com\wwwroot\images\forum_attachments/

Before I got it to look like that

It looked exactly like this:
E:/inetpub/mysite.com/wwwroot/images/forum_attachments/

I am on a Windows 2008 server if that makes a difference.

Hi jeffmace,

I can not find any bugs related to this and I cannot replicate it, but I am also not on a Windows server.

Is it possible that you have this path hard coded in your config.php file? That would overwrite what you have here but it would not explain why the last slash keeps getting reversed.

Please let me know.

Cheers,

This should definitely be ticketed as a bug!

I’ve just spent several hours uninstalling and re-installing the forum module, trying different themes, poring over database tables and generally wishing I had some hair left to pull out trying to get thumbnails generated for forum posts. After many searches on this forum (which is not easy as differentiating between this ‘forum’ and the ‘discussion forum module’ in the search terms is difficult…) I finally found this thread, changed my forward slashes to backslashes and thumbnail generation and display instantly started working.

To summarise:
in Addons->Modules->Discussion Forum->Forum Board Preferences->Attachment Preferences:

if
“Server Path to Upload Directory” = C:/Program Files (x86)/VertrigoServEE/www/images/forum_attachments/
then no thumbnails are generated, there are no error messages and images display at full size

If
“Server Path to Upload Directory” = C:\Program Files (x86)\VertrigoServEE\www\images\forum_attachments/
then all is good - thumbnails are generated and displayed in forum posts

I’m on Windows 7, ExpressionEngine 2.5.2, EE Forum 3.1.8 running Apache on localhost (VertrigoServ 2.22)

Hey artvps,

Thanks for the information.

Feel free to file a bug if you feel this qualifies!

Is there anything else I can help you with?

Cheers,