For anyone having a similar issue, somehow php-gd was broken. Check that it is installed and enabled in php.ini.
I am guessing the logic of the extension must have changed somehow, because it was working in the previous beta without it.
Anyways... Thank you all for your time and consideration.
Though I do wonder what is re-enabling an extension supposed to fix exactly?
I have tried re-enabling and re-installing the extension. I have also checked permissions.
Error log gives me no output...
Access log gives me the following:
[03/Apr/2016:23:39:20 +0200] "POST /forum/api/image/upload HTTP/1.1" 301 209
[03/Apr/2016:23:39:20 +0200] "GET /forum/api/image/upload/ HTTP/1.1" 404 54
I would also note that the DEBUG flag that appears says: "The requested resource was not found."
What I don't understand is why it is even referencing that folder location?
I created that location after trying to get it to work, but without that location existing it throws the following error:
Oops! Something went wrong. Please reload the page and try again. DEBUG
500 Internal Server Error
POST https://domain.com/forum/api/image/upload
null
If I create that folder location I get the other error. I have left the default upload location at assets/images so , again, I am really unclear where this other directory is getting called from.
However, looking again with that directory not existing, it does produce the following error:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function Intervention\\Image\\Gd\\imagecreatefromjpeg() in /home/user/public_html/forum/vendor/intervention/image/src/Intervention/Image/Gd/Decoder.php on line 33, referer: https://domain.com/forum/d/45-thread-title