cannot upload pictures on newly installed nodebb

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

Hello,

I have a newly installed nodebb on debian wheezy. I have allowed the upload of files from the settings however when I upload a picture in a post it show broken file. Could someone give me some suggestions?

regards,

[baris]

Can you upload the image to imgur? Any errors in the server console?

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

@baris said:

Can you upload the image to imgur? Any errors in the server console?

What imgur is?

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

@Peter-Zoltan-Keresztes said:

imgur

This is the error I am getting:

[baris]

http://imgur.com/ I'll take a look and see if I can reproduce.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

Yes I can upload a picture to imgur. Should I have some plugin installed for that?

[baris]

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.

[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'?