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

[Murthy Tanniru]

Kathy,
Looks like the avatar's are saved. Do you have the property 
etudes.jforum.avatar.clustered = true in 
WEB-INF/config/SystemGlobals.properties?

Thanks
Murthy
Vivie Sinou wrote:
> Kathy - I'll have our Jforum lead get in touch with you to help you out. 
>
> But, I wanted to take the opportunity to mention that we have removed the
> use of Jboss cache in our latest Jforum version (2.7.x). We've been running
> it in production since December 28 without cache successfully. I'll be
> putting this release out to Sakai (as well as Melete) shortly - today or
> Monday. 
>
> Best,
> Vivie
>
> --
> Vivie Sinou
> Executive Director, Etudes, Inc.
>
> http://etudes.org
> https://myetudes.org
>
>
>
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
>> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of kfaella
>> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 12:28 PM
>> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> Subject: [Building Sakai] JForum difficulties with avatars in a
>> clustered environment
>>
>>
>> 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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Murthy Tanniru
Senior Learning Systems Developer
Etudes Inc
http://etudes.org

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