cannot upload pictures on newly installed nodebb

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

@baris said:

To use imgur for uploads you can install the plugin nodebb-plugin-imgur from the /admin/plugins page, I tested uploading files locally, seems to work for me on the latest.

Can't we upload locally without using any outside resource?

[baris]

You can with the setting Allow users to upload regular files

Not sure why it's not working for you. What is the browser console saying about that /api/post/upload call.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

@baris said:

Not sure why it's not working for you. What is the browser console saying about that /api/post/upload call.

[Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) (upload, line 0)

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

If I try to attach it using the image icon on console I get the following:

TypeError: Failed to decode param 'uploading%20100%'
at decode_param (/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:147:15)
at Layer.match (/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:119:11)
at Function.match_layer (/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:281:16)
at next (/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:182:10)
at /nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:184:16
at Function.match_layer (/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:288:3)
at next (/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:182:10)
at /nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:184:16
at Function.match_layer (/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:288:3)
at next (/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:182:10)

[baris]

What is the filename of the image?

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

@baris said:

What is the filename of the image?

images.jpeg and it's 7K large

[baris]

The dimensions of the image shouldn't matter its the filesize thats important. Can you send a copy of the image to [email protected] I will try uploading that.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

I have sent you the file but I have tried with multiple files and sizes and formats and I got the same errors with each and every one of them.

[baris]

Yeah I tried uploading the file you sent me on my dev environment and it works fine.

It has to be something with your setup that's causing the problem. Either the /uploads folder doesn't have the correct permissions or something else is wrong.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

ok in config.son the config looks like this:

"upload_path": "/public/uploads",

the nodebb installation is on /nodebb and the public folder looks like this:

root@vpsieprod:/nodebb# ls -la public/
total 44
drwxr-xr-x  9 www-data www-data 4096 Aug  9 15:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 www-data www-data 4096 Aug  9 15:44 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 1150 Jul 29 15:43 favicon.ico
drwxr-xr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 29 15:43 images
drwxr-xr-x 34 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 29 15:43 language
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 3151 Jul 29 15:43 logo.png
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data www-data 4096 Aug  9 15:41 sounds
drwxr-xr-x  4 www-data www-data 4096 Aug  7 03:21 src
drwxr-xr-x  7 www-data www-data 4096 Aug  9 15:42 templates
drwxrwxrwx  2 www-data www-data 4096 Aug  7 09:25 uploads
drwxr-xr-x 12 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 29 15:43 vendor

[baris]

I would suggest installing nodebb as a normal user and running it with that user as well.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

Running it as root does not change a thing. It is running as root.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

My other question is that the upload_path from the config file is showing the relative path or absolute path? If it is the absolute path shouldn't be /nodebb/public/uploads? and if it is showing the relative path shouldn't be 'public/uploads'?

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

@baris

Can you please paste the part of your config.son related to file upload so that I can compare it with what I have?

[baris]

{
    "upload_path": "/public/uploads",
    "relative_path": ""
}

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

@baris I have the same. I have no idea why this is not working even if all is installed and run using root.

[julian]

Are you still getting this error?

Do you have any custom plugins installed, and if you disable all of them, does image uploading work?

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

Yes I still getting that error. I have only a Facebook and twitter sso plugins and a malign plugin installed nothing else.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

I have found out that I cannot upload because the API should be listening on port 3000 but the port 3000 is used by another node.js application. Is there any way to change the api listen port to something else?

this was in the log of the nginx error log

      2014/08/27 13:13:20 [error] 31534#0: *1972 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 79.119.156.210, server: vpsie.247rack.net, request: "POST /api/post/upload HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/post/upload", host: "vpsie.247rack.net", referrer: "http://vpsie.247rack.net/forum/topic/1/testing/2"

[julian]

NodeBB listens to whatever port number you set in the configuration file (config.json). What is port set to there?