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April 23, 2013 11:35am
Subscribe [2]#1 / Apr 23, 2013 11:35am
Lately spammers have been filing in as members on a site I’m working on. I’ve been manually deleting them because when I try to turn off member registration I get this message, “The following path you submitted is not valid:”
With a file path that doesn’t exist. I tried looking for it, but it isn’t there. How do I get control of this?
#2 / May 03, 2013 2:04pm
I’ve got the same problem. A sudden onslaught of spam registrations—after two years with no previous problems—and an error message reading The following path you submitted is not valid: /vservers/[username]/htdocs/images/signature_attachments/
Host is icdsoft. EE version is 1.6.8.
Very eager for any solutions or guidance…
Ah—just solved it. If, under member preferences, you add the correct server path to the images folder for signature_attachments, avatars, member_photos, and pm_attachments without clicking “update” until you have changed all four, the system will accept the new paths and you will then be able to change member preferences to block new members.
#3 / May 06, 2013 6:45pm
I did what you suggested, but for some reason it won’t let me do it. Now it’s saying
The following path you submitted is not valid:
/members/avatars/uploads/
though I clearly made a new path.
#4 / May 07, 2013 5:53am
Double-check the avatars path you used—for my version of EE, it was [serverpath]/images/avatars, not the uploads directory. And then make sure you’ve corrected the path for all four types of files (all of which I found within the images directory) before clicking “update.” Hope that helps—
#5 / May 07, 2013 10:35am
I didn’t have an uploads directory in the avatar path before. I made a new directory in the FTP as it seems like whoever first made the page seem to have done it off a local machine…
#6 / May 08, 2013 9:54am
Hmm. I wasn’t the one who set up the initial installation that I was working in, and I don’t work in EE that often, so I’m not sure whether the images/avatars path is a standard one or unique to the configuration I inherited. If your installation doesn’t have an images folder in the root directory, and an avatars folder within that, then it sounds like what worked for me wouldn’t work for you.