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cannot upload avatars from my local computer

@nabinshky

Participant

14 years, 8 months 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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@cnorris23

Participant

14 years, 8 months 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

14 years, 8 months ago

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

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