Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Import External Images

This vBulletin 4 product imports external images in your posts from external servers or paths into a specific path, normally your forum's image folder.

Differently than the previous product Image Cache for vBulletin 3.x., it parses the posts at regular intervals for new images and replaces the external references in the background. Also, instead of using only a single folder, it creates folders for years and months, making it much easier to handle large quantities of images. The source and destination image URL's are stored into database, too, avoiding unnecessary duplicates.

It moves and optionally converts images from one place to another. It is a handy tool in order to keep your images local to your forums.

Version 1.0.4 is temporarily in BETA stage until the users have confirmed the newly requested features.
Version 1.0.5 is still in BETA stage. It adds a new bunch of additional features, one of which allows you to test your mathematical understanding ... and a few other to fine-tune CURL and socket timeouts, and resizing on the fly of too large images. If you don't know what these options do, please leave them at their default values.

[khalled]

Originally Posted by Dragonsys

did you check the temp folder for bad images, as the others had issues with above?

Where can i find this temp folder please

[khalled]

Originally Posted by Dragonsys  View Post
did you check the temp folder for bad images, as the others had issues with above?
Where can i find this temp folder please
29 Oct 2016 12:48

I will be thankful if any one can help

[BadgerDog]

Hi Giovanni ....

We just migrated our server to a new hardware platform. The old one was 10 years old.

Unfortunately, the import mod we've been running for years has stopped working and it simply hangs when the cron job executes. (see attached)

I enabled the cron log to test, but there's nothing showing an information in the log for the Import External Images job, so I assume the script never even executes.

The new server is running Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) with PHP Version 5.6.28, but I don't think that should be an issue.

I'm not even sure what to check to see why it's stopped working and just hanging on a manual run after all these years?

Any help would be appreciated...

Regards,
Doug

[Seven Skins]

May be the folder permissions needs to be fixed.
(read/write/create) rights (chmod 777)

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Seven Skins

May be the folder permissions needs to be fixed. Change to 777

Thanks for suggestion and jumping in to help ..

I was just going to post a follow up...

Our developer got this fantastic mod working again .. :up:

Well, he really didn't do anything except as he says "added a bunch of new/updated image code development libraries to the server" ..

For whatever reason, that caused the mod to start working again immediately!!!

I'm so happy to have it running again.. our members would really miss it's ability to preserve image history from all the pics that they have built up and posted over these last many years.

Regards,
Doug

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Hi Giovanni ....

We just migrated our server to a new hardware platform. The old one was 10 years old.

Unfortunately, the import mod we've been running for years has stopped working and it simply hangs when the cron job executes. (see attached)

I enabled the cron log to test, but there's nothing showing an information in the log for the Import External Images job, so I assume the script never even executes.

The new server is running Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) with PHP Version 5.6.28, but I don't think that should be an issue.

I'm not even sure what to check to see why it's stopped working and just hanging on a manual run after all these years?

Any help would be appreciated...

Regards,
Doug

... and also maybe fopen() for URL's is not enabled, or perhaps you got once again memory issues? Is memory swapping early?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Thanks for suggestion and jumping in to help ..

I was just going to post a follow up...

Our developer got this fantastic mod working again .. :up:

Well, he really didn't do anything except as he says "added a bunch of new/updated image code development libraries to the server" ..

For whatever reason, that caused the mod to start working again immediately!!!

I'm so happy to have it running again.. our members would really miss it's ability to preserve image history from all the pics that they have built up and posted over these last many years.

Regards,
Doug

ok, I didn't see this

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

ok, I didn't see this

No problem Giovanni ..

Running real well now.. again !!! :up:

Fabulous add-on to our site and much appreciated by our membership of retired military veterans. It does a great job of helping us gather and preserve historical photographs in a single location on our web site.

Regards,
Doug

[Ashlar217]

Perfect for helping me keep my site SSL.

Installed & working on 4.2.3. I ran the cron job in batches of 10, and no issues. Nice work

[RichieBoy67]

Been running this successfully on a few sites but today I am getting a ton of these database errors: I replaced the name of the clients domain.

Invalid SQL:
INSERT IGNORE INTO iei_img (
oldurl,
newurl
) VALUES (
'http://wtfurls.com/images/86.jpg',
'mysite.com'
);