Forbidden error when posting attachments

[blakeyboy]

9 hours ago, terrysoldpennies said:

I don't know if it would make any difference but I post my pictures in jpeg ?

Terry- is. jpeg different from .jpg? I always have posted .jpg in the past without problems....

[Paddy]

I have only ever posted .jpg and my recent success was also.jpg.

There is not difference between .jpeg and .jpg. This is what Google has to say:

"There is no practical difference between JPEG and JPG files; they both refer to the same image file format created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group. The shorter, three-letter "JPG" extension originated from a legacy limitation in older versions of Microsoft Windows, which only allowed three-character file extensions. Modern operating systems no longer have this limitation, so most applications can open and interpret both file extensions interchangeably, making them identical in function. "

 

[secret santa]

Just tried to post a funny jpeg image - forbidden !

Why can't someone fix this ??????????

[Rob]

I get rejected on about 3/4 of the replies I try to post. If it comes to users chipping in to help funding the forum, I'm sure most would be amenable, but then it constitutes a contract, so would require both parties to accept both funding and a prompt fix. Funnily enough, this one posted, but no attachments.

Edited October 1 by Rob
add a picture and retest

[TomGoodheart]

On 9/29/2025 at 10:29 PM, blakeyboy said:

"This is a testament to your test reply of someone's test" , he replied testily.

😂

[secret santa]

I have just tried to post a comment about a penny sold in yesterday's Noonan's auction and received the "forbidden" reply.

This Forum is becoming unusable and will soon wither away.

[Paddy]

Agreed. Volume of postings on here was never high but has dropped to almost zero in recent weeks.

Not sure how much longer I will keep watching.

 

[Coinery]

Agreeing with this wholeheartedly!

[Chris Perkins]

Hello everyone. I'll see about getting the forum software and all the stuff it relies on upgraded to the newest versions at the weekend. There may well be some hiccups along the way, but in the end it'll be worth it I'm sure. Thanks for your patience.

[Chris Perkins]

Just also trying a random jpg.

[Peckris 2]

13 hours ago, Chris Perkins said:

Just also trying a random jpg.

I think that worked because you don't post much here? We've found that newer members tend to be able to post pictures but older members often can't.

[Chris Perkins]

It's all a bit of a mystery, but at this stage it's best to upgrade and then see if that helps, or if not then investigate further.

[Rob]

I still often get a forbidden answer, even if it is a simple Yes or No. Would that suggest it is something to do with the number of posts made rather than one of size?

[Chris Perkins]

The number of posts shouldn't affect anything. I think it's just very buggy and quite random. The php software version was deprecated 7 years ago, my host informs me, and that was ok at first and it chugged along fine, but so many years later and it's become more fragile and liable to break - that's my hope anyway! 

Yesterday I did a complete backup of the site (over 30gb data) and have prepared all the files and stuff I need to attempt an upgrade of the php version and the complete forum related files today. 

You may not be able to read this now, as the upgrade will take the site down for a while. It should show an unavailable message while that goes on.

Fingers crossed, here we go.......  

[Chris Perkins]

It was supposed to be a simple case of copying some files from here to there and then running an 'upgrade' script, but of course it became an 8 hour ordeal just to get things into a state where it would even allow me to run the upgrade script, with just blank failure shown on screen and mostly unhelpful messages if at all.

Emails to and from my host and a support request with the Invision forum people, plus me baffooning around trying to change random settings that I read online had helped for a bloke called Keith in a similar but different situation and here we are!

It's all upgraded so hopefully it now works flawlessly in every respect. 

What definitely no longer works in the rest of the predecimal.com site (from the root, i.e. without the /forum bit). That wasn't really doing much and the aim is to now move the forum over to the root so that predecimal.com is just the forum. I'll also change that old banner stuff at the top and maybe add some extra info about predecimal.com, but first, let's see how all this new software and stuff works.

 

[Paddy]

Well it is certainly back up - well done! It looks substantially as before and the only oddity I have noticed is a congratulatory notification that I have completed one whole year! 🙂 

 

[TomGoodheart]

I got one of those too!  😄

[Chris Perkins]

So did I!

I think that's because it's recalibrating, counting posts, indexing images etc etc in the background. 

Very pleased to see you both though! It means it seems to be working for others, too.

[Martinminerva]

41 minutes ago, TomGoodheart said:

I got one of those too!

Me too!

All seems to be ok - and this'll be my test post just to see if things work with a random coin picture too.

If all is good, jolly well done, Chris !!

 

[Chris Perkins]

Excellent, thank you Martin.

[Paddy]

I'll try this one as a test:

Prussia 5 Mark picked fairly cheaply at a local auction a few weeks back. I like the foreign Crown size coins, and they often seem quite cheap.

 

... and the result - FAILED on the initial try after dragging and dropping the image. Message was something like "Predecimal coins can't handle your request". I then deleted the image from the body of the message but left it in the attachments, and this then worked fine.

Interestingly after dragging and dropping there was an alert about "Rich Text", which was not there pre-upgrade for this operation, but often cause issues before when quoting text...

 

Edited Sunday at 08:54 AM by Paddy

[Chris Perkins]

Also testing a dragged image....

 

Failed.

Looking into it.

 

[Bronze & Copper Collector]

A member since 2005, I got my one year badge too.

At that rate, I'm only a bit more than 3.5 years old

 

 

[Coinery]

Nice intro., Chris, thanks for all the time you’re putting into this…much appreciated! 🤝

[Chris Perkins]

17 minutes ago, Coinery said:

Nice intro., Chris, thanks for all the time you’re putting into this…much appreciated! 🤝

Not at all, thank you and so many others.

Still not there yet with the dragging image into post error issue, but I'm making slow progress - I think. It also affects the customisation of pages and keeps booting me out behind the scenes, very annoying.