Locally Hosting

BigRed01 · Post by **BigRed01** » Mon May 01, 2023 6:23 pm

I unfortunatley after 20 years of taking care of our clubs forum, we went a different direction, using Facebook. I have locally hosted the forum for testing purposes with things like xammp. I recently restored my forum locally but am having issues with attachments. They look like when the tv stations would sign off at night in 60's-70'.

Post by **Mick** » Mon May 01, 2023 6:32 pm

How did you restore your board, by what method?

How do the images look if you view them directly in the files folder, are they ok or do they look corrupt as per the one in your post?

warmweer · Post by **warmweer** » Mon May 01, 2023 8:00 pm

see https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... filezilla/
Although the article specifically refers to Filezilla, the issue is not necessarily limited to Filezilla.

BigRed01 · Post by **BigRed01** » Mon May 01, 2023 11:56 pm

Mick wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 6:32 pm How did you restore your board, by what method?

How do the images look if you view them directly in the files folder, are they ok or do they look corrupt as per the one in your post?

It appears the files are not even there. Which is very odd. I did a full website gzip download. So everything should be there.

janus_zonstraal · Post by **janus_zonstraal** » Tue May 02, 2023 5:35 am

The files must be there, otherwise you don't get images like above, look in the files folder.

BigRed01 · Post by **BigRed01** » Tue May 02, 2023 4:36 pm

janus_zonstraal wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 5:35 am The files must be there, otherwise you don't get images like above, look in the files folder.

I checked the files folder and they are not in there. Not sure why. There are a lot of data files, more than images in that folder.

Post by **Brf** » Tue May 02, 2023 4:38 pm

Those are your images

BigRed01 · Post by **BigRed01** » Tue May 02, 2023 6:29 pm

Brf wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 4:38 pm Those are your images

I undertsnad that. Thanks. Could the version of php i'm on contribute to this?

warmweer · Post by **warmweer** » Tue May 02, 2023 6:49 pm

BigRed01 wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 6:29 pm I undertsnad that. Thanks. Could the version of php i'm on contribute to this?

No, those are images without the extension.
Do you have a backup of those files somewhere? If yes, see if you can view those.

BigRed01 · Post by **BigRed01** » Tue May 02, 2023 9:14 pm

warmweer wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 6:49 pm
BigRed01 wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 6:29 pm I undertsnad that. Thanks. Could the version of php i'm on contribute to this?
No, those are images without the extension.
Do you have a backup of those files somewhere? If yes, see if you can view those.

No, i do not. I had a har drive failure a while back that last anything that I had previously backed up. I was relaying on the complete back of the website to have all of this info.

janus_zonstraal · Post by **janus_zonstraal** » Tue May 02, 2023 9:16 pm

Can you open the files directly in the backup?
If not, there is no (easy) way to restore the images.

Post by **thecoalman** » Tue May 02, 2023 10:07 pm

BigRed01 wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 4:36 pm There are a lot of data files, more than images in that folder.

You can right click one and select "Open with.." and then select Paint, this assumes you are using Windows.

Another method to test them most of them is copy the entire folder and then you can use Windows command prompt to add .jpg extension.

https://www.top-password.com/blog/add-o ... %20%2A.jpg

Windows will be able to create thumbnails for .jpg files so you can visually inspect them all. Note that files that are not really .jpg will not have thumbnails created.

BigRed01 · Post by **BigRed01** » Mon May 29, 2023 11:33 pm

thecoalman wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 10:07 pm
BigRed01 wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 4:36 pm There are a lot of data files, more than images in that folder.
You can right click one and select "Open with.." and then select Paint, this assumes you are using Windows.

Another method to test them most of them is copy the entire folder and then you can use Windows command prompt to add .jpg extension.

https://www.top-password.com/blog/add-o ... %20%2A.jpg

Windows will be able to create thumbnails for .jpg files so you can visually inspect them all. Note that files that are not really .jpg will not have thumbnails created.

I gave this a shot and it did not work. It seems the files are corrupted somehow.