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I assume the subdomain structure of your website means your main board is in the root folder, and the colab board is in a "collab" subfolder.

If this is the case, the avatar path for the main board should be "avatars/" and the collab board should be "../avatars/"

If you're not sure where the folders are located (you're just uploading stuff to "www.hakai.org" and "collab.hakai.org"), you'll have to find out what the local paths are on the server for avatar sharing to work.

As for the mailbox... um, that's another bug.  Here's a fix (v1.3.5).

OK, here's what happens...

Both boards have to use the same avatars folder.  For the main board, that should be avatars/ (note that there are no periods or a slash in front of the path).  The actual local path should then be /public_html/avatars/

Bascily, the main board's avatar folder path should be left alone.  It's the collab board we need to change.

On the collab board, you need to backtick one directory to access the public_html directory.  You do that with two periods (../).  You can then get into the main board's avatars folder with ../avatars/.  Since I can access the collab board with www.hakai.org/collab/, this path should work.

Be aware that you will have to copy any files in the collab board avatars folder to the main board avatars folder.  Otherwise, the board will send an image link to client web browsers, but there will be nothing to display.  After copying the files, everything should appear as normal.

Tip:  there's a script called testinfo.php that allows you to see some diagnostics for your board (you must be logged in as owner to access it).  It will tell you if the avatars folder, and various other paths, are locked or not.

Again, regardless of what the collab board needs to be, the main board should have an avatar path of avatars/

Ohhhhhhh...  DUH!  Now I know what's wrong.

On the server end, things work fine (uploading the avatar, for example).  However, the link in the web browser isn't working with the subdomain path.  In other words, ../avatars/ is sent to the web browser, which ends up being http://collab.site.com/avatars/, which is wrong.  It should be http://www.site.com/avatars/

Well, the easy fix is to tell people to visit http://www.hakai.org/collab/ instead of http://collab.hakai.org.  Otherwise, I can edit the index and profile viewer to serve a direct URL (I believe there's only three places this needs to be done).  Lemme know what you'd like to do.

OK, here's the patch.  It is designed to replace files in v1.3.4 only.  You only have to copy it to the collab board, but copying it to both boards will probably make things easier:  Avatar URL path patch

The magic starts on line 99 of "boot.php":

if (strpos ('../', $cfg['avatar_folder']) !== FALSE) {
    // Check backticks -- absolute URL path needed
    $avatar_url = 'http://www.hakai.org/avatars';
} else {
    // No backticks -- use relative path
    $avatar_url = $cfg['avatar_folder'];
}

What this does is check if you are using the main avatars folder or not.  If so, just avatars/ is used.  If not, the url path is used.  Basicly, it's already set up for you.  Just make sure that in the contol panel, the main board is set up with avatars/ and the collab board uses ../avatars/, and you'll be all set.

I keep these patches on file, so if a new version of Wacintaki is released, just remind me about this and I'll update it.

If you like.  All I want to know is what the IMG tag link for the collab board avatars looks like.  I tried it on my board and it worked fine.

E-mail would be best.  I realized a short time ago that this forum doesn't support PM!  WTF?