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OK- We have a 2.1.6 imeplementation that was working until a week or so ago

I now can't attach files on any new forums I create...

in some cases I don't get an option (for the entire forum)

in other cases I get the option but get an error 500 message when I try and upload any attachment

And then....all attachments also fail.

Sadly I don't administer the server only the forum, but I am assured nothing has been changed on the server in the past couple of weeks.

WTF is happening?
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Dr J wrote:OK- We have a 2.1.6 imeplementation that was working until a week or so ago

I now can't attach files on any new forums I create...

in some cases I don't get an option (for the entire forum)

in other cases I get the option but get an error 500 message when I try and upload any attachment

And then....all attachments also fail.

Sadly I don't administer the server only the forum, but I am assured nothing has been changed on the server in the past couple of weeks.

WTF is happening?



Have you been monkeying around in the Admin console? Meaning, were you trying some things out and then things went south? Or, did the forum just start having these problems "on it's own?"

Speaking from experience, there have been MANY times people swear they didn't change anything on a server .. . only to find out in one case that they swapped out NICs, reteamed them, updated NIC & OS drivers, and blocked port 1433 (and this was on a MS SQL server). But they didn't touch anything ! ;-(
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One quick thought is that someone deleted your "tmp" directory in the jForum webapp root directory. If this does not exists, you will get a NullPointerException relating to an "enableRollback() method.
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I double-checked temporary directory and can confirm that <jforum_home>/WEB-INF/tmp directory exists and is writable by 'tomcat' user (under which Tomcat is running).
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I think the tmp directory has to be under the jForum root directory. But there may be a config property that can change that.
[originally posted on jforum.net by monroe]
 
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