By default Roller stores uploaded files in
${user.home}/rollerdata/mediafiles but on your computer, for some reason,
the value ${user.home} is not being substituted correctly.You'll have to set the 'mediafiles.storage.dir' property in your roller-custom.properties file to point to the place where you want uploaded images stored. - Dave On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Marcus <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running apache tomcat 6.0.33 and have installed Roller version 5 onto > the server as in the installation instructions. > The JVM is for java 5.0. > > > I have created a blog and have a post. > > However I cannot upload media files to the server because the path to the > image folder is not known. > > If I look in the roller.log for what happens I see the following : > > Invalid path [/usr/local/cpanel/base/*${** > user.home}*/roller_data/**mediafiles/**trialsandtribulations], directory > doesn't exist. > > If I look at the variable used for the search folder I see : > > IndexManagerImpl:<init> - index dir: > */home2/marcusb/roller_data/**search-index* > I > So the search folder is set correctly but the Image directory is not. > > I have run the roller with an image directory defined in roller.config and > also without one defined. > > What roller does is always insert this ${user.home} variable in instead of > translated it as it has done for the search folder > ie it should be looking at /home2/marcusb/roller_data/**mediafiles/ > instead of /usr/local/cpanel/base/*${**user.home}*/roller_data/** > mediafiles. > > > Anybody got any ideas on this ? > > kind regards > Marcus > > > -- Dave M. Johnson Apache Roller PMC Chair http://rollerweblogger.org/roller
