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

[James Layer]

Kathy,

I'm certainly no expert in the Sakai space, but I did trip over something
similar myself recently. Don't know if it's relevant, but we also have the
'avatar.context' property in SystemGlobals.properties set to
'/jforum-images' - I presumeed that was related to the context reference in
jforum-images.xml

Jim Layer
Antioch University

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:28 PM, kfaella <kmf at uri.edu> wrote:

>
> 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
>
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