Attachment problems...

[Mach1]

Ok I just installed my message board and everything including avatars is working fine.  Unfortunately, when I try to upload a picture under the 'Additional Options' and then view it in Preview, it says "You may need to reattach this file: undefined".  I'm browsing to my pc and choosing the .jpg that I want.  It's small enough as defined in my settings.

In trying to fix this, I thought maybe the path to the attachments was wrong and I changed it.  Now I cant go into the Attachment Manager screen.  Could someone tell me what to change this back to and possibly a fix for my issue?  Thanks a ton!

[Jerry]

Try and run this script to fix the directories:

What is repair_settings.php?

[Mach1]

Ok when I ran that I got this..

>Notice: Undefined variable: attempt in /home/content/A/n/a/AnakinSW/html/repair_settings.php on line 326

>Some settings are not being shown because the MySQL connection information is incorrect.


and then at the bottom it said this: Settings.php cannot be written to by your webserver. Please modify the permissions on this file to allow write access.

There's a list of stuff between that say this:

>Critical Settings
These are the settings most likely to be screwing up your board, but try the things below (especially the path and URL ones) if these don't help. You can click on the recommendded value to use it.
Maintenance Mode:
Value not found!   Off (recommended)
Enabled
Unusable (not recommended!)

Language File:
Value not found!   
Recommended value: "english".
Cookie Name:
Value not found!   
Recommended value: "SMFCookie11".


MySQL Database Info
This is the server, username, password, and database for your MySQL server.
MySQL server:
Value not found!   
Recommended value: "localhost".
MySQL database name:
Value not found!   
MySQL username:
Value not found!   
MySQL password:
Value not found!   
MySQL table prefix:
Value not found!   
MySQL connection type:
Value not found!   Standard (recommended)
Persistent (might cause problems)



Paths & URLs
These are the paths and URLs to your SMF installation, and can cause big problems when they are wrong. Sorry, there are a lot of them.
Forum URL:
Value not found!   
Recommended value: "hxxp:www.localstangs.com [nonactive]".
Forum Directory:
Value not found!   
Recommended value: "/home/content/A/n/a/AnakinSW/html".
Sources Directory:
Value not found!   


Any ideas?

[Oldiesmann]

Looks like Settings.php got messed up. If you've got a "Settings_bak.php" on your server, you can delete Settings.php and rename Settings_bak.php to "Settings.php". Otherwise, chmod Settings.php to 777 and go through and fill in the info. If you're not sure about something, you can use the recommended value (although the cookie name should probably be SMFCookie10).

[Mach1]

Well I don't know what this is about but I replaced the file and that didn't change anything... but apparently the problem was when I was trying to use 'preview'.  I accidentally hit 'save' instead on a post and attaching a file and it worked 

There we go.  Now I'm up and running... guess you can't preview an attachment.