Can't upload profile pics on Windows server install

[Quylaa]

We've been building using this forum software (which, by the way, I think is the best-looking forums out there), and most of our designing had been done on a Linux machine, where everything worked fine. However, when we moved to the final server, a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine, whenever I try to change the profile picture of anyone, this happens.

I don't know whether it's a problem with Windows node.js or with NodeBB, but we need this fixed soon, and if anyone has any ideas, they'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[baris]

That error seems to be coming from the gm module, at
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/src/image.js#L18 and
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/src/image.js#L23, not sure how compatible they are on windows, you can try commenting out those resize lines and see if uploads work.

[Quylaa]

I commented out those lines and now I get this:

[derrg]

Have you tried running node from a command prompt in Administrator mode ('Run as Administrator')?

[Quylaa]

I RDP in as Administrator (not very secure, I know, we're going to disable it before going live), so the command prompt runs as admin every time. I tried changing the permissions of the folder it says in the error, but that didn't change anything. I even ran a fresh install of NodeBB, but that had no effect either. At this point what we're gonna do is just run it on a small Linux box.

[derrg]

I can't blame you; Windows can be pretty finicky sometimes. If you have UAC enabled, I think you might still have to specify that you want to run your command prompt in Administrator mode. I'd double check that just to make sure.

I found someone who was having somewhat similar problems with node's GraphicsMagick (gm) plugin on StackOverflow and it looks like their solution involved changing require('gm').subClass({imageMagick:true}) to require('gm'), as well as running node from Administrator mode.

[Quylaa]

Well now all I get is a "spawn ENOENT" error, which I fixed on the Linux machine by installing imagemagick through apt. Unfortunately, installing it on Windows didn't work.

[derrg]

Looks like a permissions error, but their solution is to use require('gm').subClass({ imageMagick : true}).

Maybe Linux is the answer for you after all!

[Quylaa]

Yea, I'm just gonna stick with hosting it on the Linux server. Thanks anyway!

[derrg]

I'll try to reproduce the error and see if I can't fix it.

[derrg]

I've managed to reproduce the issue on Win2k8R2. It's coming from ImageMagick not being installed/configured correctly.

These are the steps I took to fix the issue:

1. Go out and install the latest version of ImageMagick

2. After running the installer make sure that you close the command prompt from which you are running NodeBB.

3. Open a new command prompt and rerun node app.js

The problem should be fixed!