[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by pspcrazy

Andrew I was wondering is it normal for the upload directory to not work like it should :| For instance:

The forums are located here: http://forums.pspcrazy.com/forums/

Now the root prefix is a yes, and for it's directory i used: ./downloads

upload_dir : /files
Cannot access/create directory /files [/var/www/vhosts/pspcrazy.com/subdomains/forums/httpdocs/forums/downloads/files]

That's the directory i'm getting :| CHmod is 777 as well so that's not the issue.

also for thumbs they are in /downloads/thumbs but that doesn't work either :|

I need help to get this working , thanks in advance i do love this mod.

It is some time since I checked use of local_file_root = yes and a relative directory name, so I must recheck this.

It looks to me from your error message that the setting of local_file_root and the concatenation of local_file_root_prefix + upload dir is getting to the wrong place in the directory structure.

Remember that if you have set local_file_root to yes, then everything is based on directories relative to the server itself, rather than your web site root. If you are storing everything within directories that are actually part of the web site, then it's better and easier to set local_file_root to no.

So you have to discover the full path to the directories you want to use for uploads and thumbs, and make sure that the combination of local_file_root_prefix and upload_dir/thumbs_dir point to these directories. You can work this out by taking a look at the phpinfo output (e.g. vb/admin/maintenance) document_root.

Am happy to take a look at your site and get this working if you want - send me a PM if so.