XF 2.1 Cannot change avatars - clicking existing avatar gives a 404 error

[Overscan]

On my forum, no-one can edit their avatars in the forum.

If you click on the existing avatar, it says "oops. We ran into some problems". Using Chrome developer tools I can see 404 error for URL:

 https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/account/avatar?_xfRequestUri=%2Faccount%2F&_xfWithData=1&_xfToken=1559808904%2C04f76f710609d3cb70a484c2f74bae89&_xfResponseType=json

I note that

https://xenforo.com/community/account/avatar

works and gives the avatar editing page

On my forum

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/account/avatar

Gives a 404 error.

I don't really understand how this URL relates to scripts in Xenforo, so not sure what is wrong. Maybe nginx config?

 

[tonmo]

Just to follow up, I had this very problematic line in my ssl.conf file on my nginx server... removed it, and this problem is solved. I'm not sure why I had included that line in the first place (some stack overflow search I imagine, related to how index.php is handled) -- but removing it has caused no issues.

Commented out this line in the ssl conf file:

 # if ($request_uri ~* "^(.*/)index\.php(.*)") { return 301 $1$2; }

 

[bolef2k]

Took me quite a while to figure out but there is a way easier way to fix this!

In the member_view template, go to the line 29...

<xf:avatar user="{$user}" size="l" href="" update="{{ link('account/avatar', $user) }}" />

Change to:

<xf:avatar user="{$user}" size="l" href="" update="{{ link('account/avatar/', $user) }}" />

And same goes for the account_avatar template on line 8
Change to

<xf:form action="{{ link('account/avatar/') }}" upload="true" ajax="true" class="block" data-xf-init="avatar-upload">

Fixes my issue finally