This question is related to the 'Avatars don't show in Admin' thread created recently (
https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?start=0&topic_id=72652&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&type=&mode=0), but different as I explain below.
As other threads I've started in the last 24 hours will tell you, I've updagred from 2.4.4 to 2.5.3. and I have added the Profile module to enable CAPTCHA facilities.
However, the avatars are all missing now and users do not have the option to upload one themselves, despite the option being set to 'yes' for "Allow custom avatar upload?" Preferences --> User Info Settings.
In Preferences --> System Module Settings, I also have 'Active Avatars' set to 'Yes'.
Despite that, all new users get a silouetted figure as a default Avatar, and if you click on 'Edit Account' there is no button to add or edit Avatars as there used to be.
If I go to Avatars Manager, the it recognises the 66 System Avatars plus a few dozen custom avatars in terms of numbers, but when I click on them to see a gallery of pictures, all I get is the names of each avatar with no actual picture - i.e. a thuimbnails gallery with no thumbnails.
The image path is
"Choose files in: C:\path\to\my\website\lost-doggies.com/uploads/avatars/"
As far as I know, the \ and / slash issue should be resolved by the PHP functions. Yes - the site is hosted on Windows Server 2008 and IIS.
If I then explore ImageManager itself, again, it sees that I have many categories and hundreds of images, but it cannot show any of them. This might help explain why my WF-Channel pages are not working either, as they too contain images? (
https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=74296&post_id=341579#forumpost341579).
I'm not sure if it's related, but I detected a problem similar to this using another CMS and it was due to the imagemanager directory being moved. It was fixed in that (
http://community.?????.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4426&forum=49&post_id=39570#forumpost39570). I'm not sure if that problem has been replicated in some way here?
Thanks
Ted
(PS - this is why I hate upgrading....4 threads in and about 6 hours in and I'm still ironing out problems).