AVATARS not functional on new PHPBB3 Install

[BearState]

Hey ho everyone,

I've just finished installing and putting my new PHPBB3 forums online. Enjoy.

But ...

I've got an install problem and I'm not sure what's causing it.

On my staging server, everything works fine, but on BH, the Icons that normally display in front of every forum, topic and post are missing ... and when I tried to install an AVATAR, there's a message that says that the AVATAR functionality is 'disabled'.

I think the two problems are possibly related to the same issue. Anybody know where I should look to correct this?

Brian

[BearState]

Wow, that was fun ...

FYI for all you folks installed PHPBB3 and creating new styles ...

I found that when I loaded the exported files from staging server, the the style image install routine in PHPBB3 did NOT load all of the images, only a minimal set of them. I don't know whether that's considered a bug or not. Most of the images in the style did not get loaded.

I would have thought that having the same names as what's in the pull-down list would have made things easy to reload all of them, perhaps using an XML document to ensure that they were all published and read in properly. But ... no such luck and I had to manually go through and compare what my staging server had with the BH install and manually type in all the references in the Style Images menu. It took a while, but evarything's up and fine now.

All that's left for me is to learn more about PHPBB3, work on getting it administered properly and get some users visiting the site.

Brian