Whenever I or any of my users try to change their avatar, we get the error
The URL you entered for your avatar does not appear to be valid. Please ensure you enter a valid URL.
This is even if the URL is verifiably valid. Suggestions?
My guess is that you didn't chmod (change permission) the avatar directory to 777?
Well, I'm strictly talking about remote URL's here, but FWIW, both my uploads and avatars directories are 777.
I'm getting the same thing.
What happens if use an alternate url?
judel Wrote:Hmmm...are you typing the whole url? Meaning http://www.site.com/image.jpg? You need to make sure to include the http://
Yep, typing the whole URL. This bug has only been around since ... maybe 1.1.6 or so? It used to work.
Case in point: I *have* a valid remote-URL avatar, that I set up when I installed version 1.1.2 of the board. So it's there, it works, it's fine.
When I try to change the avatar to something else, or
even why I try to just resubmit the form with my current avatar's URL, it says it's invalid. It must be valid, because it's already my existing avatar!
I have tested this at several boards and I'm successfully able to change my remote avatar.
I dunno if this will change anything, but try reuploading a fresh 1.1.8 usercp.php.
Fixed the problem. It was a setting in my php.ini file.
Please make sure that allow_url_fopen is set to On.