Userpic does not stick

By Ting-Li Lin on May 12, 2009 at 3:45 PM 2 Vote 0 Votes

I don't have ImageMagick or GD on the server, but I have NetPBM instead. So there's no problem to create thumbnails. I can see the thumbnails being created in the following folder

/mt-static/support/asset_c/2009/05

but NOT in either of the following two folders

/mt-static/support/userpics
/mt-static/support/asset_c/userpics

Where should the userpics be stored? Is this because of any bug or because I use NetPBM?

Your input is appreciated. Thanks!

P.S. I'm using MT4.25 with Yahoo Web Hosting service.

Reported on Movable Type 4.2

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Chad Everett | June 26, 2009 6:30 AM | Reply

Hi Ting-Li -

You don't mention, but do you have NetPBM set up in your config file?

http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/config-directives/netpbmpath.html

I've never used NetPBM for userpics, but I would imagine that is a necessity.

I've also had a lot of problems with Yahoo recently, but that's a good places to start. If there is any way that you can use Image::Magick, then I'd try and check that out.
Ting-Li Lin | June 26, 2009 3:35 PM | Reply

Hi Chad,

Thanks for your help.

I only specify the ImageDriver in the config file as the following

ImageDriver NetPBM

Since MT looks for the NetPBM tools in three locations: /usr/local/netpbm/bin, /usr/local/bin, and /usr/bin, I think I don't need to specify the NetPBMPath.

Unfortunately, Yahoo does not have Image::Magick. Or they used to have it, but now doesn't.

Best,
Ting-Li