Title: [Plugin: User Photo] Upload error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: User Photo] Upload error

 *  [anino_jr15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anino_jr15/)
 * (@anino_jr15)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-photo-upload-error/)
 * I would really like to put this in my blog but I’m getting this error:
 * “**The userphoto upload content directory does not exist and could not be created.
   Please ensure that you have write permissions for the ‘/userphoto’ directory.
   Did you put slash at the beginning of the upload path in Misc. settings? It should
   be a path relative to the WordPress root directory. wp_upload_dir() returned:**“
 * Any help is greatly appreciated.

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 *  [cjluck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cjluck/)
 * (@cjluck)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-photo-upload-error/#post-990783)
 * I second that. I’m getting the same error message.
 *  [thenetty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thenetty/)
 * (@thenetty)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-photo-upload-error/#post-990789)
 * ditto I am getting similar error
 * Unable to create directory ……./wp-content/uploads/2009/03. Is its parent directory
   writable by the server? and its is
 *  [rubhadubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubhadubh/)
 * (@rubhadubh)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-photo-upload-error/#post-990807)
 * Yes, you will get this error if you activate the plugin but haven’t altered permissions
   on the upload folder.
 * In wp-admin under Settings -> Miscellaneous -> Store uploads in this folder, 
   there is a path. You need to make this folder writeable by chmod, so that the
   system can save images to it.
 * Worked great after doing that… hope that helps.
 *  [darknailblue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darknailblue/)
 * (@darknailblue)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-photo-upload-error/#post-990838)
 * I’m using CHMOD 777 on the entire wp-content directory and all subdirectories
   and files… Still nothing…
 * Using PHP5 and mySQL 4 on a media temple server…
 * HELP!!
 *  [proque](https://wordpress.org/support/users/proque/)
 * (@proque)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-photo-upload-error/#post-990842)
 * Same problem here.
 * > **Upload error:** The userphoto upload content directory does not exist and
   > could not be created. Please ensure that you have write permissions for the‘/
   > userphoto’ directory. Did you put slash at the beginning of the upload path
   > in Misc. settings? It should be a path relative to the WordPress root directory.
   > wp_upload_dir() returned:
 * – Uploads dir is CHMOD 777;
    – Manually created the “userphoto” folder and chmoded
   it 777;
 * nothing works 🙁
 * HELP.
 * Thanks 🙂
 *  [leewal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leewal/)
 * (@leewal)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-photo-upload-error/#post-990845)
 * Same problem – same answers… chmod 777 /wp-content/uploads/
 * help!
 *  [leewal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leewal/)
 * (@leewal)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-photo-upload-error/#post-990846)
 * try removing the hash in the front of the path in the misc.
    wp-content/uploads
 * that actually worked for me.. I can’t splain it lucy!

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 * 7 replies
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 * Last reply from: [leewal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leewal/)
 * Last activity: [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-photo-upload-error/#post-990846)
 * Status: not resolved

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