Avatar upload issue (Ubuntu)

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Thanks for this, I had to do some extra manual steps though as the edited installer didn’t seem to install npm or ruby latest versions

Also using ubuntu-22.04

Install latest npm using (option 2): https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-node-js-on-ubuntu-22-04

Install pnmp: npm install -g pnpm

Install latest ruby (method 3): https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/01/install-ruby-ubuntu-24-04/

Add this to bash.rc:

export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(rbenv init -)"

Install imagemagik manually, the latest version (make sure you go to the " Install latest version of ImageMagick from the source code (for advanced and desperate users)" section: https://itsfoss.com/install-imagemagick-ubuntu

Only after all of this was I able to log on to the instance….

Guide to Setting Up Discourse Development Environment - Windows 11
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So after spending the entire day getting the dev instance up and running, I was pretty pleased…everything seems to be ok, except uploading avatars. Specifically, as a user I can upload an avatar and in the avatar upload box it shows correctly, but when I click save it just displays the placeholder avatar…..no errors in log…

this is quite important to me as I set up the dev instance to test a migration and one of those tests is that it gets avatars :smiley: …so I want to make sure they work before going ahead with a test import.

Uploaded images in topics appear correctly, no issue

Anyone have any ideas? Any help much appreciated

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URLs for pictures can be a bit tricky on local.

Make sure you are starting your local server with FORCE_HOSTNAME=localhost:4200 bin/ember-cli -u

It’s better to use a test instance in the cloud to mimic your final destination … in fact, I would recommend you test migrations in the cloud ultimately.

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Tried that, no luck.

I’m so tired after spending the entire day getting this local dev environment to where it is, I can’t bring myself to think it was all pointless now :stuck_out_tongue: thought I was there!

My thought process for a local dev environment was:

run the import script locally, backup discord, put it on the proper cloud production instance when all looks good…

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you can check the urls of the avatars in the browser dev tools and may find they are not correct

local installs are very useful for development and testing … just not perfect for manipulating images

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What is probably happening is that WSL is not exposing 127.0.0.1 to Windows, so a Windows browser is not picking it up.

Instead try to launch from Chrome within WSL2 and use that?

My guess is the avatars are being displayed with a 127.0.0.1 address …

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Ahh sorry I’m using Ubuntu, on a Ubuntu VM. Didn’t mean to hijack this win 11 thread

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