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And when I mean “unable to load,” I mean that when I attempt to upload an image to a POST or Add Media, the image doesn’t show up at all nor does it save to the specified folder.

Thanks again!

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:

With:

It fixes the problem.

Yeah, the “fix” breaks the media section. Any images uploaded through wp-admin doesn’t show up.

Hey,

I’m now running WPMU (2.9.2) + Buddypress (1.2.2.1) after two updates. Before the update I was always able to upload avatars and my users, too.

Now uploading avatars is impossible. I cannot find the uploaded pictures. They are not in the directory of “wp-contents/blogs.dir/1/files/uploads”.

The folder of blogs.dir has 777-permissions and also safe-mode is turned off.

Any suggestions what the problem is?

Thanks in advance.

Greetings

@Madmax – your fix works for me. It is weird because on 1.2.1 uploading avatars worked fine.

Doh! I forgot to disable BuddyPress before doing it. I think that caused my problem.

I’m now able to upload avatars AND still have a workable Media Library.

Here’s my steps:

– Disable Buddy Press

– In Dashboard > Settings > Miscellaneous :

Store uploads in this foler: wp-content/uploads

Full URL path to files: http://yoursite.com/wordpressfolder/wp-content/uploads

– Make the already mentioned edits in bp-core-avatars.php

– Activate BuddyPress

Both avatars and media library worked for me.

Hi there,

I too am facing a problem with Avatars.

I am installed BP on a fresh WordPress, no MU involved.

The BP is installed here http://www.waapsols.com .. some how I can’t get the upload avtar thing to work.

It fails during cropping. Can you please check and comment.

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’ve just done a brand new installation and got this with the fix to core-avitars.php

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

$path = WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/uploads’;

else

$path = ABSPATH . $path;

and removing the upload path and substituting with full upload url

I’ve set up a main site and a subdomain. Both standard media library uploads work OK. But when I enable BiddyPress and try to create an avatar I get…

Blog 1

Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory /var/www/vhosts/powerofthefeminine.com/httpdocs//group-avatars/1. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

http://powerofthefeminine.com/files/2010/04/okso_big-150×150.jpg

Blog 2

Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory /var/www/vhosts/powerofthefeminine.com/httpdocs//group-avatars/2. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

http://members.powerofthefeminine.com/files/2010/04/okso_big-150×150.jpg

with upload path set to wp-content/uploads and leaving the full url in place I get a perfect upload but a bad return path with wp-content missing from url…

Blog 1

http://powerofthefeminine.com/uploads/group-avatars/1/avatar.jpg

Blog 2

http://powerofthefeminine.com/uploads/group-avatars/2/avatar.jpg

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.

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’m getting the right url path thanks to Chads post. Still getting a error when trying to upload a group avatar and a member avatar. Another tester was able to upload on a windows machine. Here is the error:

Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /var/www/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php on line 281

WP 3.0-beta

-Multisite upgraded from MU 2.9.2

-using subdirectorys

BP 1.2.3

-installed on secondary blog

-modified the bp_core_avatar_upload_path() to use upload_url_path

-modified htaccess RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]