Attachment storage type

[K4GAP]

I'm trying to point my attachments to a folder on my site server. I have permissions on that folder set to 0777.

I've tried...

/attachment

/public_html/attachments

and even ....

www.livinginkentucky.com/attachments

None of these have worked as I keep getting, "We attempted to write a test file to /public_html/attachments, but we were unsuccessful. Please verify that the web server has write/delete permissions for this path."

What am I doing wrong?

[Lionel]

you need to put the full path starting from root e.g. /var/whatever/public_html/attachments

if you do not know the full path, open up forum.php and right after
require_once('./global.php');

put echo DIR; exit; and run that file. (remove that after you got it)

[Lynne]

You can also get your full path by looking at your Maintenance > View PHP Info > Document Root

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by Lynne

You can also get your full path by looking at your Maintenance > View PHP Info > Document Root

that will work only if you have your site there. For example i have a site at /var/www/custom
but the document root only shows /var/www

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by Lionel

that will work only if you have your site there. For example i have a site at /var/www/custom
but the document root only shows /var/www

Presumably this means that your site is hosted at www.something.com/custom. If so the document is root is correct, since you site is the custom sub-directory of the website, so on the drive it is located in the custom sub-directory of the document root.

[Lionel]

nope. it is at www.something custom folder is another install

[K4GAP]

Originally Posted by Lynne

You can also get your full path by looking at your Maintenance > View PHP Info > Document Root

Thank you Lynne, that did it.