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cannot upload avatars from my local computer

nabinshky
Participant

@nabinshky

14 years ago

hi everyone,

i am very new to buddypress. i uploaded buddypress and everything is working fine except uploading of avatars from my local machine. when i try uploading avatars it gives following error:

Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory /home/nepalipo/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/35. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

i checked my file permissions, the blog dir is permission is 777 which is writable. so why am i getting such errors?? pls anybody help.

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Brandon Allen
Participant

@cnorris23

14 years ago

You actually don’t want folder permissions as 777. On some hosts, 777 even cause an “Internal Server Error 500” error. It also means anyone and everyone can read/write/execute in that folder. At the most, you should have 755. Some hosts may differ on this, but in general, these rules follow. I don’t know that 755 will fix anything, but it may, so give it a try.

For the rest of the questions:

What kind of server are you hosted on?

What version of WP/WPMU are you using?

What version of BP are you using?

modemlooper
Moderator

@modemlooper

14 years ago

Search on here. It’s been said before. Something to do with setting the upload path in the admin.

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