XF 1.4 some avatars are broken images

[xml]

Hi All

I moved my forums backup to a new server and after restoring I found some (not all) members avatars are broken images. data and internal_data folders permissions are 777

Before I move I upgraded mysql to MariaDB then I checked every thing including avatars and every thing is working fine on the old server then I made a backup then moved it to the new server

 

[Paul B]

Do the images exist on the new server?
It's possible the restore is incomplete.

If they do exist, then it could point to permission (chmod) or ownership (chown) issues.

 

[xml]

This is the out come when I request the url of the broken avatar
Not Found
The requested URL /community/data/avatars/s/77/77556.jpg was not found on this server.

How its possible the restore was incomplete? I didn't receive any error message during the restoration process !

 

[xml]

I checked the database sizes on both servers.
On the old server its 4.6 GB
On the new server its 4.5 GB

What could cause incomplete restore? is there any settings I should do on the new server to make sure the restore is complete?

 

[Mike]

This relates to the file system rather than the database. I don't think we could really comment what would cause this as it would depend on the method you used to transfer everything.

 

[xml]

Hello Mike

you mean avatars are not included in backups? if yes then the problem is solved

 

[Mike]

What do you mean by "backups"? You need to backup the database and the file system (by default, that would be the directory containing XenForo). If you don't backup the files, you won't have attachments, avatars and other data.

 

[xml]

This time I made a backup for the whole user account which includes database and all folders and files of the root directory and restored it to the new server here is one of the broken avatars:

Not Found
The requested URL /community/data/avatars/s/55/55255.jpg was not found on this server.

when I searched for that avatars 55255.jpg in FTP I foundout it exist but have permission of 666 !



I tried to change the permission to 777 but it says
Response: 550 Could not change perms on 55255.jpg: Operation not permitted !

How to fix this?

 

[Paul B]

Try chown'ing first.

 

[xml]

I did
chmod -R 777 data
chmod -R 777 internal_data

But still not fix

 

[xml]

I did
chown -R vbcom:vbcom /home/vbcom/public_html/
chown -R vbcom:nobody /home/vbcom/public_html/

and that fixed the problem

 

[TPerry]

I did
chown -R vbcom:vbcom /home/vbcom/public_html/
chown -R vbcom:nobody /home/vbcom/public_html/

and that fixed the problem

Yeah, chown requires a user:group to work.

 

[xml]

I am having now a broken thumnails attachments (but the full image attachments is ok) and I have to chown to fix the broken thumnails attachments that are already posted but the problem keep happening again and again with every new thumnails attachments when posted and I have to chown again and again to fix the problem!!

I am running xf143, Centos 7, Apache2.4, MariaDB 10

 

[TPerry]

I am running xf143, Centos 7, Apache2.4, MariaDB 10

Sounds more like a hosting issue. Something is changing ownership of the files at some time.
Are you using anything like selinux? Are you managing this server or do you have someone else doing it?

 

[xml]

Hello Tracy

yes SElinux is installed but its also installed in my old server Centos 6 and never caused a problem. Yes I have root access to the server

Edit: SELinux status: disabled

 

[xml]

another issue in the server error log:
ErrorException: fopen(/home/vbcom/public_html/community/internal_data/sitemaps/sitemap-1465647229-7.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied - library/XenForo/Deferred/Sitemap.php:210

 

[TPerry]

You say you are using CentOS, MariaDB and Apache 2.4. I'm going to assume since you are using Apache and not nginx, OLS or LiteSpeed you are using a cPanel setup?
And what user/group is 99? It looks like nobody:nobody on my CentOS box.

 

[xml]

if you mean the xenforo root directory and all sub-directories inside it then its user:nobody

 

[TPerry]

If you look at your image, that file you highlighted was changed to nobody:nobody as the owner. Either you have script (cron) running that does that or your PHP processor changes it (and if it keeps redoing the same ones, it's a server issue).
if nothing else, you can set up a script to run in a cron to reset the ownership every few hours - but that's only a band-aid solution. You need to find out what on y our server is changing the ownership.
You could use audit to check what is changing the files possibly
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-linux-auditing-system-on-centos-7

 

[xml]

when I do
chown user:user /home/user/public_html
my forums broken and I get this message:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /community/ on this server.
Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I am using the default htaccess out of the box of xenforo package !!