[Building Sakai] JForum difficulties with avatars in a clustered environment

[kfaella]

We have just upgraded our Sakai to 2.5.x (in time for Spring Semester) and
are trying to install JForum.  We have a clustered environment with multiple
instances over a couple of different physical machines.  We have been
successfully sharing files over the instances since last semester.  

In our new production environment, we seem to be able to choose an avatar
and successfully store it in the shared area as seen below:

[root at artlake]# ls -la /sakaimisc/jforum/avatars/images/avatar/
total 60
drwxrwxr-x 3 sakai sakai 4096 Jan 22 14:23 .
drwxrwxr-x 4 sakai sakai 4096 Jan 20 12:02 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 sakai sakai 3653 Jan 22 14:23
1679091c5a880faf6fb5e6087eb1b2dc.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 sakai sakai 3653 Jan 22 12:55
a87ff679a2f3e71d9181a67b7542122c.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 sakai sakai 6364 Jan 22 12:33
eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sakai sakai  128 Jan 20 12:02 index.html

I will focus on the one beginning "eecbc ..."  stored just this afternoon at
12:33.

When I try to see the avatar in the My Profile or in a message, I just get
the default AVATAR.  If I right click to view the avatar (in my profile), I
get this path:
https://sakai.uri.edu/jforum-images/images/avatar/eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3.jpg

and 
HTTP Status 404 -
/jforum-images/images/avatar/eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3.jpg

What the heh?  Sakai can write the avatar but not read it?!!??

Associated file contents:

[root at artlake ]# more
/usr/local/apache-tomcat-5.5.26.beta1/conf/Catalina/localhost/jforum-images.xml 
 <Context path="/jforum-images" docBase="/sakaimisc/jforum/avatars">
 </Context>

and

[root at artlake ]# grep sakaimisc
/usr/local/apache-tomcat-5.5.26.beta1/webapps/etudes-jforum-tool/WEB-INF/config/SystemGlobals.properties 
local.config.dir=/sakaimisc/jforum/config
avatar.path = /sakaimisc/jforum/avatars
packaging.path=/sakaimisc/jforum/packagefiles

Can someone help me??  I have beat my head on this and ....  

Thanks,
Kathy Faella
University of Rhode Island

-- 
View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/JForum-difficulties-with-avatars-in-a-clustered-environment-tp27279539p27279539.html
Sent from the Sakai - Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.