[racin36er]

I’ve heard BP doesnt like subdirectories much – so I gave it a shot just in the root DIR – same problem.

There has to be some issues with permissions/virtual directories somewhere. Any insight?

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both are the newest versions available. WP is 3.0.5 and BP is 1.2.7 (latest addition i could find). through the course of my troubleshooting I have indeed removed all plugins just BP enabled. theme is “Simple WP Community Theme 1.6”, however I have also tried with just the standalone BP theme included, BuddyPress Default 1.2.7. I have also completely removed BP and completed a fresh install twice – still the same problem.

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Thanks mercime,

Permalinks are not set to default.
WP install had no problems previously – 404’s started after installing BP and only occur on BP related links (activity, members, etc)
Was installed via the Plugin menu in WP (automatic)
Have a BP ready theme installed and it’s working – its the links that do not.

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and when mod_rewrite IS enabled, and .htaccess looks how it should according to this thread – then what? WP works just fine until I try and use any BP links (accounts/members/etc etcetc) all result in 404s.

**edit** as a side note, i’ve had this problem for a year plus trying to figure out how to use BP. all the links come up as 404 stating that it doesnt exist in /blog-DIR/ – well duh? all the BP stuff shows up in /blog-DIR/wp-content/plugins/buddypress – NOT in the main DIR. even after moving the BP folder into the root /, still nothing. makes it worse, in fact.

i’m REALLY looking for a viable answer here. why do all BP links point to the root DIR? this is NOT where the files are!

[racin36er]

Not resolved, just decided to remove it for now. I’ll reattempt this install after the rest of my server-related projects are completed.

Thanks for the input, all.

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Okay – so new problem.

To test further, I deactivated the BuddyPress plugin – and still, it’s adding an extra “wmpu/” into the URL, for some reason. i seriously, have *no* idea what’s happening now.

I’ve checked wildcards with zoneedit.com – set to *.bp-tech.net > http://www.bp-tech.net/wpmu – which is the address. sooooo lost.

***UPDATE**

okay – fixed that. changed wildcard to just http://www.bp-tech.net and it stopped the addition of the second “wpmu/”

but still – same problem. back to all of the BP links returning 404s. i dont understand?

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yah – me either. mod_rewrite is definitely enabled; and mu worked fine previously

[racin36er]

Already tried Switched the links from the 4 different options and back. currently at Default, where I was originally.

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More troubleshooting – something is wrong with whatever/however buddypress sets the virtual directories, i think. not an expert (obviously ) but thats what its pointing to for me.

added a blog through the admin dashboard, assigned it to the user i created. when i log in as that user, and attempt to view my dashboard/add/edit/view/manage posts, i get the address:

http://www.bp-tech.net/wpmu/wpmu/wp-admin/?c=1

which has one extra root DIR. i tried removing the extra “wpmu/” in the URL and loading again, it reverted back to the above and showed 404.

I can’t find any directory related settings/information. But something is clearly wrong with the way mu and bp work together in regards to directory/url locations on my install, i think.

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Nevermind – checked again – it does. I was expecting them to be sans “wp_”

Any ideas? This is driving me mad!

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Hmm, just checked my SQL tables for MU. Should there be entries in there for buddypress, somewhere? There arent – if there should be.