The Arcive of Official vBulletin Modifications Site.

Bradley_Wint · #1 05-07-2011, 02:53 AM

Ok guys, I have an NGINX webserver and I am trying to move my attachments from the database to the fileserver. I got the direct path (e.g. /var/www/forums/attachment), CHMODed to 777 but when I tried to move it, none of the files moved. Any ideas?

HMBeaty · #2 05-07-2011, 03:15 AM

What happens when you attempt to move them? Do you get an error? Did you rebuild your counters as directed?

Bradley_Wint · #3 05-07-2011, 03:54 AM

During the move, it asks me to verify the count

1) whether the number match - which they do (5 and 5)
2) Number of Attachments that could not be created or are 0 bytes: 5 ...

So far I have uploaded 5 attachments, which means something is wrong. When I check the attachments folder, I see files in .attach and .thumb format rather than in .jpg, .zip, .gif etc. Finally the URLs are still served via the attachment.php file rather than giving a more straightforward path...which I assume means they have not moved over to the database.

Lynne · #4 05-07-2011, 04:05 AM

The attachments are supposed to be in .attach format and they will still have the attachment.php file serving them since that file makes sure only users who have permissions to see the images can see them.

Bradley_Wint · #5 05-07-2011, 04:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lynne

The attachments are supposed to be in .attach format and they will still have the attachment.php file serving them since that file makes sure only users who have permissions to see the images can see them.

So I shouldn't be too worried about the 2nd line not being 0?

Lynne · #6 05-07-2011, 04:11 PM

Take a backup, move the attachments, see if they moved and everything works (make sure to do a hard refresh on pages you have visited before to get the files served up correctly). If everything is fine, then great. If it isn't, then import your backup.

I really don't know anything about nginx. You tried this once, right? Did you look in your error_logs (if you don't know where they are, ask your host) to see if there was an entry there?

RobDog888 · #7 05-08-2011, 04:47 PM

To add to Lynne's comment, the .attach and .thumb files are when then database exports the attachments to the file system. When it does they become files with those extensions. If they were still in the database then you will NOT see any files since they are stored in the db

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.03836 seconds Memory Usage 2,213KB Queries Executed 11 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)SHOWTHREAD (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (1)ad_showthread_beforeqr (1)ad_showthread_firstpost (1)ad_showthread_firstpost_sig (1)ad_showthread_firstpost_start (1)bbcode_quote (1)footer (1)forumjump (1)forumrules (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (1)navbar (3)navbar_link (120)option (7)post_thanks_box (7)post_thanks_button (1)post_thanks_javascript (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (7)post_thanks_postbit_info (7)postbit (7)postbit_onlinestatus (7)postbit_wrapper (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open (1)tagbit_wrapper Phrase Groups Available: global inlinemod postbit posting reputationlevel showthread	Included Files: ./showthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php ./includes/class_postbit.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_reputation.php ./includes/functions_post_thanks.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete showthread_start showthread_getinfo forumjump showthread_post_start showthread_query_postids showthread_query bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create showthread_postbit_create postbit_factory postbit_display_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_end post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_start post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_end post_thanks_function_thanked_already_start post_thanks_function_thanked_already_end fetch_musername postbit_imicons bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete postbit_display_complete post_thanks_function_can_thank_this_post_start tag_fetchbit_complete forumrules navbits navbits_complete showthread_complete
Messages:

The Arcive of Official vBulletin Modifications Site.

It is not a VB3 engine, just a parsed copy!