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Just tried disabling/re-enabling. Group avatar upload still broken. Crop image dialog points here:

http://www.drivelineblogs.com/groups/strength-and-conditioning/admin/wp-content/uploads/group-avatars/2/crossfit-girl-front-squat-450×355.jpg

And now I can’t find the image at all.

I really want to use BuddyPress but this simple functionality is broken. Makes me wonder.

EDITED: Tried doing it again. Deleted old groups, made a new one. Crop image dialog points to:

http://www.drivelineblogs.com/groups/create/step/wp-content/uploads/group-avatars/3/crossfit-girl-front-squat-450×355.jpg

But it’s actually hosted here:

http://www.drivelineblogs.com/wp-content/uploads/group-avatars/3/crossfit-girl-front-squat-450×355.jpg

I am running it off a sub-folder in WP 3.0. I have been for a long time but the most recent upgrade broke my avatars. It looks as if the image uploads correctly for me, but doesn’t pull it in to crop. The path it try’s is:

http://www.website.com/sub-folder-blog/blogs.dir/2/files/avatars/1/avatar.jpg

when it should be

http://www.website.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/avatars/1/avatar.jpg

Any ideas on what I should try to change? I’ve already tried:

Thanks!

Hi Paul, I trust you have fully recovered from Kilkenny by now.

You mention in trac that you’re not getting much technical detail about each install; as it happens, this problem has cropped up on a BP install on my purely-experimental, not-at-all-production, mucking-about server, you would be very welcome to ssh in as root or login to WHM – EasyApache makes it pretty easy to see what is and is not installed.

I also have that new ServerBuddy server analysis plugin installed, lists various settings and permissions in a pleasing enough manner.

The site where this crops up for me is:

http://PolishPlumber.com

… and, just to be clear, it isn’t a problem for me, this install will be getting wiped anyway, I just thought it might be an interesting and accessible example of the problem in the wild.

So, what’s happening is that the image URLs are missing the “wp-content/” part:

Images are appearing in pages as, for instance,

http://polishplumber.com/uploads/avatars/6/81ed298a2a27464f895c2726bd433478-bpfull.jpg

… when, of course, they should be

http://polishplumber.com/wp-content/uploads/avatars/6/81ed298a2a27464f895c2726bd433478-bpfull.jpg

This is BP 1.2.3 on an MS WP 3.0b1, so, there is no Settings > Miscellaneous to attempt the Full URL path magic trick you suggested above but it is a pretty clean, recently installed CentOS + WHM box, standards settings, it might be useful in figuring out why the paths are getting mangled.

Again, this a purely experimental site and server, I didn’t actually expect to get BP working properly on a beta WP anyway, don’t worry about breaking anything, just let me know if you think it might be useful and want me to send you the passwords.

I have been having a few problems with the avatars, the only ones that wants to work are the gravatars, which are fine but i want to offer my users something more, there are two questions that i would like to ask. The first is how do i get them to show? i have tried other peoples suggestions but nothing works, i do have GD Lib on the server, as i have used it for other projects so i know that isn’t a problem, what happens is i goto the change avatar part of my profile and try to upload it does upload to /wp-content/uploads/avatars/1 however the crop part dosent show any image at all, and other users have told me that this is happening as well. have you any ideas on how to fix this problem?

Also on a slightly less important note, i would like to change the default avatars that users can select, to fit in more with the theme of my site, is there a way to do this? I have a few created that i would like to use for members to choose from IF i can get this to work.

Isn’t that exactly what’s supposed to happen?

When you zoom out the cropper (taking the picture as a whole) it has to put all those pixels in the tiny image. Which results in a blurry avatar.

Isn’t that exactly what’s supposed to happen?

When you zoom out the cropper (taking the picture as a whole) it has to put all those pixels in the tiny image. Which results in a blurry avatar.

I have read through every post on this subject and followed all of the advise implicitly but have an url error I just can’t rectify. My upload process works correctly placing an image in dir wp-content/uploads/group-avatars/3/file name.jpg but when it reloads to crop the thumb it returns a bad url with the wp-content/ missing eg

http://domain.tld/uploads/group-avatars/3/okso_big2.jpg

If I remove file upload path from options.php and set the full url I get this returned on attempting an upload wp-content/uploads missing and it breaks the path to the standard wp media library

Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory domain.tld/httpdocs//group-avatars/3. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

Can anyone please tel me where the path is set in the core files to wp-content/ added to the return url

I have read through every post on this subject and followed all of the advise implicitly but have an url error I just can’t rectify. My upload process works correctly placing an image in dir wp-content/uploads/group-avatars/3/file name.jpg but when it reloads to crop the thumb it returns a bad url with the wp-content/ missing eg

http://domain.tld/uploads/group-avatars/3/okso_big2.jpg

If I remove file upload path from options.php and set the full url I get this returned on attempting an upload wp-content/uploads missing and it breaks the path to the standard wp media library

Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory domain.tld/httpdocs//group-avatars/3. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

Can anyone please tel me where the path is set in the core files to wp-content/ added to the return url

Thanks @dweanus, that solved the problem. However, I just noticed a new one crop up: In the Forum topics list view, a topic’s rating number is not showing up in the Ratings column on any of the sub-pages, only on the first page. You can see at Wordlab — http://www.wordlab.com/forums/ — you might see a couple topics on the first page with ratings listed in the Ratings column, but if you click on the subsequent pages, you won’t see any, even though some topics have been rated.

These things come to mind

1. Did you move BP installation from blog_id_1 to blog_id_2 during development or was your BP installed in blog_id_2 at the onset? I came across some cases like that while browsing online. Will have to search for those … just scanned over the info because those issues were not relevant to my installs, but what I recall is moving some folders in server and some DB manipulations.

2. GD Library – when you upload images in posts/pages, does your install generate the 150px x 150px and 300px x 300px etc?

Check if wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2009/12/ has original-image.jpg, original-image-150×150.jpg, original-image-300×300.jpg … because if it’s not generating thumbnails in regular media upload in posts/pages, then that might be the reason why it’s not cropping in your install and you might want to contact your hosting about GD library

@Diesel Laws, you’re right. There is no Miscellaneous settings in WPMU because avatar uploads go to

e.g. BP in main blog_id_1

wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/ plus folders for user 1/ 2/ 3/ etc. and

wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/group-avatars/ plus folders for group 1/ 2/ 3/ etc.

Can you see if your avatars and group-avatars folders were created in the /files/ folder?

If they have been created, can you see the images uploaded as avatars in the 1/ 2/ 3/ etc folders inside avatars and group-avatars folders?

If not, you might want to check folder permissions in your server, if 755 does not work then try 777 at /files/ folder. If that still doesn’t work, CHMOD 777 the /1/ folder

In addition to the thread https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/avatar-upload-issues ,

you could also deactivate all plugins and change to default theme, then re-upload BuddyPress via FTP or cpanel. Then activate BuddyPress plugin and bp-default theme and see if uploading avatar works.

Go to Settings -> Miscellaneous Settings
.

Set “Store uploads in this folder” to “wp-content/uploads”.


Set “Full URL path to files” to the REAL FULL PATH of your uploads.


Then change “bp-core-avatars.php” line 389:

Replace:


if ( !$path = get_option( 'upload_path' ) )


$path = WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/uploads';


With:
if ( !$path = get_option( ‘upload_path’ ) )


$path = WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/uploads';


else
$path = ABSPATH . $path;

It fixes the problem.

Source: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/avatar-upload-issues/page/2

This is really something that need be fixed with the next release.

@dweanus — I have noticed an error that has cropped up using Rate Forum Posts: a user’s karma display gets stuck at some arbitrary number and stops incrementing. However, when you click on “Groups” tab sub-menu in the user profile — /members/username/groups/ — and only that page, the correct karma value is displayed. You can see it in action on wordlab.com, where my (“snark”) karma value is stuck at 18p — http://www.wordlab.com/members/snark/activity/ — except on the Groups sub-page, where it shows the correct value of 157p — http://www.wordlab.com/members/snark/groups/. I tried deactivating and re-activating the plugin, but the problem persisted.

Have you tried using the default theme? I notice to you have a ton of javascript files being loaded. Conflict?

@xezo that is correct. I thought he was talking about access to all profile fields for edit/delete, for which you do have access via the extra Admin bar menus created by BP for admins. Those are the ones I use all the time (fixing avatar crop screw ups, as an example)

So, from that perspective, the only use for Skeleton Key would be for additional stuff introduced by less that robust plugins, no?