diogo/gnu-social

I joined in early-to-mid 2010s as https://status.davidchmelik.com/ and had to reinstall once or a few/couple times in the past, and reinstalled recently after I got my webserver working again.
    Even though I saved not just my MySQL database (which some people incorrectly said is all you need) and /var/www/gnusocial (which you do need also) and copied the directories mentioned in the missing/renamed UPGRADE file, when I upgraded from v1.2 (git) to v2 I no longer have an avatar.
    When I figured out what directory I needed to create (which migration should've been documented in UPGRADE) and tried to upload my JPG avatar (my photo) it shows a black square with small icon at top left indicating broken image... then I saw a WEBP in the avatar directory but apparently it wasn't converted/saved at all.
    Avatars of accounts I follow (FSF) are also broken (though I still see their posts and images in those.)
    If you can help me fix my node, I'll restart a node I let a few scientific/mathematical people use.

Maybe some php modules missing? Php-exif and php-gd, for instance. I'd go through https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/src/master/INSTALL.md and make sure the prerequisites are installed.

Another possibility, given that you have a backup of the avatars directory, is that it is not in the correct location. It should be in /var/www/gnusocial/file/avatar.

Maybe you've already done all this; I can't think right now in any other reason for the failure to show avatars.

My server OS typically comes with all that PHP stuff but I don't see the option, such as when I originally installed, to show what I may have missing.

root@darwinheim:/var/www/gnusocial# php -m|grep -E "openssl|curl|exif|gd|intl|json|mbstring|mysql|gmp|bcmath|opcache|readline|xml"
bcmath
curl
exif
gd
gmp
intl
json
libxml
mbstring
mysqli
mysqlnd
openssl
pdo_mysql
readline
xml
xmlreader
xmlrpc
xmlwriter

I have /var/www/gnusocial/avatar but the settings say it's /var/www/gnusocial/file/avatar/, which didn't exist; do I copy everything to that?

Don't know about how Slackware manages it (it is the OS you are using, right?). In Debian, that is what I use, the note applies:

NOTE: Some distros require manual enabling in the relevant php.ini for some modules.

About avatar directory: create /var/www/gnusocial/file (uploads will be stored there) and move avatar into file directory. That should do it.

They're all there and didn't require manually editing in the past.

;php.ini
extension=bcmath
extension=curl
extension=exif
extension=gd
extension=gmp
extension=intl
extension=mbstring
extension=mysqli
extension=openssl
extension=pdo_mysql
extension=xmlreader
extension=xmlrpc

I didn't see readline or other xml (except in 'php -m,' previous post.) I copied the avatars to the new directory, but they didn't appear yet. What should be the new directory's permissions, 755?

Check in GS admin/paths panel if everything is correct. Maybe also reload/restart php and apache.

I added a missing one of those, restarted webserver (PHP is always running--doesn't stop/restart--I'm not using one of the weird new undocumented alterations of using PHP that don't work) and restarted GNU Social (scripts/stopdaemons.sh, startdaemons.sh) but they still didn't appear.

dchmelik closed 2 years ago

Restarting a few times, updating permissions/ownership (and fixing PHP error loggin) and it finally worked.

#272 avatar disappeared and can't re-upload