Hello All,

On a Linux based server running the following:

Xoops version XOOPS 2.0.16
Website URLhttp://motorcycletouringsafetyfoundation.org
Default template set
Debug mode Off
Software server Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
PHP version 5.0.5
MySql version 5.0.27-standard-log
Status safe mode ON
Register Globals ON
allow_url_fopen OFF This May Cause Problems
session.use_trans_sid ON
GD librairie Support thumbs available bundled (2.0.28 compatible) thumbs available
Upload Status ON
Max upload size 24M

Symptoms:

1. When uploading via custom avatar, or via the image manager from the admin menu, an error message:

Could not get uploaded file 0
Error loading mimetypes definition

occurs with any type (gif, jpg, png, GIF, JPG, PNG) of graphic that I upload, and the upload fails.

2. I can upload via the Avatar Manager add on module just fine, and it worked for admin the first time I uploaded as admin a new custom admin icon. Since then, it does not, except with Avatar Manager (Avaman by GI Joe).

What have I done:

I've looked through the FAQs and the Forums pretty thouroughly, and found a notation about PHP.INI having a blank upload directory would cause just such an error. I've submitted a help ticket to my Web Host (SitePoint) on how to get to PHP.INI, as it's not in my file directory structure. But since Avatar Manager can upload, I don't think this is the problem.

There was another set of forum notes regarding missing mimetypes, in previous versions, but not XOOPS 2.0.16.

What I need:

Can anyone take a look at the site and see if there is anything obvious? If not, does anyone know of this issue and it's solution? It's not a huge deal if it doesn't work, but when I get to adding a gallery and file up/download section it may still not work, and then we'll have a major problem.

Any help would be appreciated. If you look at the time of this posting, you can see I've been pulling out my hair all day and night on this one.

Thanks in advance,

Byron McKay

I have seen the same problem while trying to upload my avatar on dev.xoops.org

Quote:

Did anyone ever address the problem? I mean it's pretty bad to have both avatar uploads and the image manager both fail.

You can only FTP the stuff up at that point, and that leaves user customization and pictures in articles and several other things a content management system is supposed to do out in the cold!

I'm at a loss. All of this stuff used to work in versions 2.0.14 and earlier. .15 and .16 have been successively buggier with each new release with regards to uploads and mimetypes. This stuff is fundamental to CMS. There has to be a way to fix it!

Thanks for your feedback,

Byron