Group forums not working (again)
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I am using BuddyPress 1.0.2 on WPMU 2.7.1 with bbPress 1.0.
After some initial troubles (see http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/group-forums-not-working ) I had been able to use group forums. I didn’t came around to actually using them until now… and now they are broke again.
When I activate a group forum, no corresponding forum is created. When I try to post something, I get a non-helpful message telling me that there was a problem and not telling what the problem was.oci-bp-sayhello.php replies with a convenient “Hello from bbPress!” so I guess XMLRPC communication is working.
Since I had been focusing on other parts of the site for a few weeks I do not know when exactly the group forums broke. It is probably noteworthy that I updated to bbPress 1.0 final and buddypress 1.0.2 just yesterday.
I already tried turning off every plugin except the buddypress helper in bbpress. With no effect.
I also use bpGroups, but the problem exists with or without bpGroups activated.
I did not change the password of the admin user that is used for the forum integration since it last worked. Just to be sure I set a new password and updated it in buddypress and bpGroupd – without effect.
Any suggestions what to check next?
By the way, I think it would be really helpful to extend the error message with a a little more information.
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bb-config was untouched by the update. I deleted the old bbpress and then uploaded the new one. xmprpc is still enabled in bbpress admin. Everything looks normal in buddypress forums setup. When I create a new group, both wire and forum are activated by default.
BUT: When I create a new group, everything works smoothly. A new forum is created and I can post topics.
I also just managed to sucessfully create a group forum for an old group. It seems that just the one group that I originally used for testing did not work and still does not.
For me that makes things “good enough”, because I can just delete this one old group. It was a test group anyway. I’m just wondering whether I should mark this thread as resolved, although the original problem is not resolved, just less troublesome.
Nope, still nothing. Maybe a group forum just can’t be called “Test” for some reason?
Update to bbPress 1.0.1 didn’t help either, by the way…
This might sound silly but, here’s what I would do (after backing everything up). Leave your bb-config file. Delete everything else in the forums directory. Upload alpha 6. Then, upload bbPress 1. Don’t DELETE alpha 6. Just overwrite it. I’ve been messing with this upgrade for a couple of days now and if I delete/replace, the update doesn’t work. If I overwrite, it does work. Seems as though there’s a file that’s been removed from the new version that buddypress looks for.
If that doesn’t work…..
I’m wondering if your upgrade actually upgraded. The way I do the update is, I rename bb-config to something like bb-config2. Then I replace the files in the forums directory & navigate to /forums. It asks for your database info & then says “oh. There’s already a database. Maybe you want to use the upgrade script” You click the upgrade link and it does a couple changes and says it’s done. Then, I open up the newly created bb-config & (using the OLD bb-config) I put back any of the custom codes that I need such as the cookies & defines.
I hope something in there helps.
@r-a-y: Yes, I did.
@TheEasyButton: That’s a bit too complicated.
I could just remove the buggy group and I think that would solve the problem. I’m merely leaving it out of curiosity to see if there is a real fixable bug behind it. Down-/Upgrading to alpha 6 would also just be a workaround and I think the group-deleting would be the easier workaround in this case. I also did not have any trouble with the update otherwise. Everything (except this one group) works smoothly and bbPress does not complain about anything. So I guess the update worked.
But thanks for the input.
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