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I am not able to upload avatar file. File type is bmp,size 1KB and width and height are 48 x 48 pixels.

Is there any restriction for file types?

Thanks,
Gopal
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Hhmm.. good question. Try using a jpg, gif or png file, and see if it works. If so, you can register this as a probably bug at http://www.jforum.net/jira

Rafael
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gopal wrote:I am not able to upload avatar file. File type is bmp,size 1KB and width and height are 48 x 48 pixels.

Why do you wanna upload a bmp? It can only be viewed by Windows-users.
[originally posted on jforum.net by lazee]

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Hi Rafael,

I am able to upload jpg,gif or png files but not bmp. Better define default file types in configuration file like the other properties defined for avatar and aslo give an option for changing the avatar directory in configuration file like you did for upload directory.
Becuase we are planing to deploy forum application on few different machines with load blancer setup in front. In this case we want to use NFS directory to share some common directories(ie upload,avatar,etc..) accross all machines.
Right now i am able update the upload directory with NFS directory to access same files from different servers in the back ground. I have added servlet to display shared images for uploaded files but i didn't find an option to update avatar directory.

If my file type is in capital letters(ie JPG) then the image is not diplaying in the page. But it is working fine on your "Test Forum".
Do you have any idea what could be the issue?

lazee, Generally most of users using website doesn't know about these technical issues. If we have a file type property in configuration, then we can easly check the file type before uploading to server, If file type is not mentioned in the list then we can give message saying that it supports only these file types. I am suggesting rafael to add a property for file types in configuration file. So that we can update the file types for each different case (ie upload,avatar,etc..) depend on the requriment.

Just these are my thoughts.May be you guys have better ideas.

Thanks,
Gopal
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Could you please register an issue about this in Jira?

http://www.jforum.net/jira
[originally posted on jforum.net by lazee]

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Posted a bug in jira.

We deployed the forum application on linux server does that cause the issue for capital file extention(.JPG)?

Gopal
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I tracked the issue(.jpg vs .JPG) and fixed on my local build. May be you have already fixed this issue in your new versions because it is working fine on your "Test Forum".

Updated the shouldCreateThumb method on AttachmentCommon.java to work for both .jpg and .JPG file extension.

Following is the code that is checking with small file extension only in shouldCreateThumb method.

("jpg".equals(extension) || "jpeg".equals(extension) || "gif".equals(extension) || "png".equals(extension))

Hope this is the only one place that needs to be fixed. Let me know if there is any other file that needs to be updated.

Thanks,
Gopal
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