Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Forum help

Tim said the following on 28/11/07 23:38:
> A friend of mine runs a forum based on phpBB unfortunately she is not very IT
> minded. Every now and again when a user goes to change their Avatar they are
> unable to and it throws up a error message (see below). In this case in
> question the user is in there user personal profile and is trying to browse
> there PC to select the graphic file on there PC to be used as the avatar,
> they select the file and the path appears in the box, they then click submit
> at the bottom of the page then they get the error below.
>
> Anybody any suggestions what the problem could be??
>
> Tim
>
> (The stars represent a word I was asked to remove by the forum owner, its a
> long story its the same word in each case)
>
> Warning: move_uploaded_file(./images/avatars/1930489481474af7c602664.gif)
> [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied
> in /home/******/public_html/includes/usercp_avatar.php on line 288
>
> Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to
> move '/tmp/phpYk88zA' to './images/avatars/1930489481474af7c602664.gif'
> in /home/******/public_html/includes/usercp_avatar.php on line 288
>
> Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output
> started at /home/******/public_html/includes/usercp_avatar.php:288)
> in /home/******/public_html/includes/page_header.php on line 483
>
> Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output
> started at /home/*****/public_html/includes/usercp_avatar.php:288)
> in /home/*******/public_html/includes/page_header.php on line 485
>
> Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output
> started at /home/******/public_html/includes/usercp_avatar.php:288)
> in /home/*******/public_html/includes/page_header.php on line 486
>

I suspect that the permissions have been set wrongly on ./images/avatars
- I think that apache needs to be able to both read and write to the
directory.

Chris Oattes.