More questions from a noob.

Pretty soon, I won't be a noob! Thanks for all the help!

I have a member who is the first one trying to upload his avatar. I have "Allow Uploaded Avatars" checked, but I have not specified a directory. How does this work? Can this be a directory on the server or does it have to be a 3rd Party service such as Photobucket, SmugMug, etc? If the former, is all that's required of me is to create the directory and the program loads the avatar into that directory? That seems waaaay too simple to me.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Bill

Yeh create the folder you want avatars to be uploaded too.
set the correct permissions.
do the folder checker.

And that's it, when they upload they go in there.

Directory needs to be on your server as it requires
an absolute path if memorey serves correctly.

Thanks. I'm still having trouble. I created a directory creatively named "avatars" at my website. But, to upload files there using either FrontPage or FTP or whatever, I need to provide a username and password just like I'm editing a web page. When I go to the Profile Settings and enter either "../avatars","http://www.mywebsite.com/avatars" or just "avatars", I get the same error message when testing it, "Directory not found."

What am I doing wrong?

O.K., I got it. I had to go back to the Master Settings, cut and past the path from there and then paste it in front of "/avatars", a directory that already exists.

Thanks again.

I think I might be about to graduate from kindergarten to elementary school!

Just a note for any users accessing this thread having the same issue.

An absolute path is the full path to your install according to your webserver, this path can generally be found in the path settings if you have an installed forum. It generally looks something like:
/var/www/html
/home/mysite/public_html/

A relative path is the path from your current directory, this would be something like
avitars/

which would exist under your full path.

The avitar system itself, just like th eattachments system, requires a full path to the directory in which you're allowing uploads, and it requires that the directory have full write permissions (777).