Hi Eric Weston,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

I have tried to create a new blog post from your site Easyblog composer, but what i noticed is when i trying to upload one of the image, it hitting some permission issues. Check my screenshot below.

I believe that should an issues when you using staging site, can you provide us with your FTP access so we can take a look of this.

Also can you consult with your webhosting provider regarding this error?

Arlex

Hmm - I might be misunderstanding you, but it seems to me that image permission issues are not the source of the problem. No images are loaded into the image blocks, and I still get the same problems even if I completely remove the image blocks.

I made another staging copy and performed a quick test as follows:

1. New post, using 'news' template.
   
2. Removed the image blocks.
   
3. Added 'table' block, with stripes, added some text in the cells.
   
4. Clicked 'Update Post' - graphic spins but never posted.
   
5. Cancelled the post and lost the changes.
   
6. New post, using 'news' template.
   
7. Removed the image blocks and then immediately went to 'Update Post'.
   
8. This time it did save.
   
9. Edit post, adding table as before.
   
10. Clicked 'Update Post' - but once again, it fails to post and changes are lost. No images were involved, so your hypothesis makes no sense to me.
    

hi Eric Weston,

Sorry for late reply to this and confusing on my previous reply,

If you only installed Easyblog component, you no change to "Optimized" for your environment mode, when i change back to static mode, it should work fine now. Can you give it a try?

Your English is a little unclear - please correct me if I misunderstand, but I believe you mean:

1. EasyBlog>>Settings>>System>>System Environment was set to 'Optimised'
   
2. You changed this to 'Static'
   
3. You believe it should now work and you'd like me to try again.
   

So, I tried again, but I'm afraid that it still isn't working reliably. Sometimes I make a quick change and it updates OK. Then I edit the post again, make a couple more changes and try to update again and it fails.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Hello Eric,

I am sorry for the delayed response.

After some testing on your site, it seems like whenever you try to upload a photo inside the composer, the photo url will then be redirected to your live site instead of staging site, thus returning the error unable to fetch the photo. When there are some error exist in the composer, composer will not be able to save the blog post. When I try to save the blog post without any image everything is working fine.

Having being said, I believe this issue is only occur on your staging site but everything should working fine on your live site. Hope these can clarify the issue that you are facing currently.

As I said before, I get this problem even when there are no image blocks in the post. I tried again, using a blank template this time and making various edits with tables and such, but not images. It updated the first couple of times, and then the same old problem again even though were no images.

I use the staging site to test things. My 'live site' isn't actually live at the moment, but of course it is bad practice to 'hope' that the problem is only with staging and to upgrade the live site directly.

Frankly, I'm seriously considering switching to Wordpress and am testing that now. EasyBlog is good, and I like Joomla. But I'm fed up with the amount of effort I'm wasting just trying to make many small aspects of posting as pleasant and frictionless as they are in Wordpress.

hi Eric Weston,

I'm really sorry that delayed of this reply and make you confusing and inconvenience on this

By any chance, when you using Siteground's staging site feature, the problem here is the way Siteground is actually rewriting the urls. They are doing this on the webserver level and because our javascript files are cached (written on the file system), we retrieve the site url from a cached file. Hence, it always tries to make an ajax request to http://tipsunzipped.com/ rather than http://staging2.tipsunzipped.com which is a domino effect and cause the rest of the javascript codes to fail altogether. Check my screenshot below. (When you click Preview, save as template, or update the post, you also will hitting this issues,)

Perhaps you can consult with your Webhosting provider regarding this and see is there a way to make it work around?
Keep us updated when your hosting do response to you.

Thanks for your attention on this problem, but I have now switched to Wordpress. I have another Joomla site and might switch EasyBlog over to that at some point, but have no plans so I won't be doing any further testing at the moment.

Hello Eric,

Thank you for the updates.