cannot save the external storage settings

[Andy]

Hi Rodolfo,

I'm having an issue with my external storage, I seems cannot edit it.

Recently my localhost FTP external storage stopped working (no recent configuration were made neither with the server nor the Chevereto itself (it's a dedicated VPS)

and I realised that now there's virtual external storage called Local, so I gave up the FTP and go ahead with the Local external storage as it looks more proper.

when saving the FTP external storage, I gave the wrong path (I gave an FTP path on the local external storage path) -- which incomplete (will not work)

when I tried to fix, every time I edit, nothing happened when I click Save.

I just need to edit from /domains/site.pictures/public_html/i/ to: /home/site/domains/site.pictures/public_html/i/

I disabled my external storage and cannot re-enable it as the given path is incomplete (incorrect)

So I went to the PHPMyAdmin and edited manually to the correct value.

went back to Chevereto external storage and finally managed to re-enable my local external storage.

My questions are:

1. why it didn't want to save and makes me have to edit the SQL manually?
2. is there any other SQL reference that I need to edit?
3. and for your information, I have attached the dumped row of chv_storages, can you please verify if my chv_storages table is OK? Why I'm seeing the old FTP password there? Do I need to clean them up? Or perhaps these remnants that made Chevereto cannot save the external configuration settings.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you and kind regards,
Andy

 

[Rodolfo]

why it didn't want to save and makes me have to edit the SQL manually?

Impossible to tell without knowing the response code (if any) and the XHR payload (if any).

is there any other SQL reference that I need to edit?

No.

and for your information, I have attached the dumped row of chv_storages, can you please verify if my chv_storages table is OK? Why I'm seeing the old FTP password there? Do I need to clean them up? Or perhaps these remnants that made Chevereto cannot save the external configuration settings.

Thing with storages is that I never made a delete storage method. It is OK to remove the storages not being used or linked.

 

[Andy]

Impossible to tell without knowing the response code (if any) and the XHR payload (if any).

There was no payload, it just nothing happened. Any way to debug this? Happy to send you the debug data.

Thing with storages is that I never made a delete storage method. It is OK to remove the storages not being used or linked.

I'm still using that storage, but have some remnants data on it, my question was are those remnants data that preventing me to save the virtual external storage settings from the Chevereto dashboard?

 

[Rodolfo]

It should be OK to remove that extra data. Don't worry.

 

[Andy]

Thanks Rodolfo.

Is there any log I can dig why those external storage settings didn't want to save?

 

[Andy]

Does the SQL table above look normal to you for a Local external storage API?

 

[Rodolfo]

Yes it looks fine.

 

[Andy]

Thanks, Rodolfo 👍

 

[Andy]

Another question:
I installed Chevereto long time ago, I'm using MariaDB instead of MySQL and it just brought to my attention when looking at settings.php:

$settings['db_driver'] = 'mysql';

Should I change it to:

$settings['db_driver'] = 'mariadb';

And I have a feature suggestion for you:

Add a feature to test social media links

Hi Rodolfo, I just discovered that my Twitter callback URL is not working. https://site.pictures now we use https://site.pictures/connect/twitter I think it's a good idea to add a test social media integration just like what XenForo has, so we can test it periodically to make sure that our...

chevereto.com

 

[Rodolfo]

No, you shouldn't change the driver name. MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL.