I installed buddypress but I am continuously seeing 404 errors and in apache logs it says this. However I can “Activity” directory somewhere inside wp_plugin. What can I do to make these pages available?

[Wed Mar 09 17:07:30 2011] [error] [client 192.168.2.5] File does not exist: /var/www/html/site/activity, referer: http://192.168.2.8/site/
[Wed Mar 09 17:07:41 2011] [error] [client 192.168.2.5] File does not exist: /var/www/html/site/forums, referer: http://192.168.2.8/site/

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

What’s in your .htaccess file?

[@mwp Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

I don’t have .htaccess file

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

You need one or else you can’t use BuddyPress.
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

[@mwp Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

It doesn;t really say what should be there in .htaccess file. Can you point me to some other doc that gives that info.

BTW: I am able to get the main home page but then none of the links work. They give that 404 error.

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

Deactivate BuddyPress and BP plugins. Run Settings > Permalinks and choose permalink other than default. https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Where.27s_my_.htaccess_file.3F and next topic below that is content of htaccess for single WP installation

Resolve WP installation before activating BuddyPress. Also if you plan to allow blogs for your users, create a network i.e. go multisite and resolve any issues before activating BuddyPress.

[@mwp Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

I had to reinstall wordpress. I got tons of errors when I try to add buddypress plugin in the latest 3.1 wordpress:

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /var/www/html/site/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-catchuri.php on line 85

Notice: is_page was called incorrectly. Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false. (This message was added in version 3.1.) in /var/www/html/site/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3422

Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in /var/www/html/site/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-catchuri.php on line 158

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$loggedin_user in /var/www/html/site/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums.php on line 530

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /var/www/html/site/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums.php on line 530

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$displayed_user in /var/www/html/site/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php on line 1070

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /var/www/html/site/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php on line 1070

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$profile in /var/www/html/site/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-classes.php on line 816

Notice: Constant BP_XPROFILE_BASE_GROUP_NAME already defined in /var/www/html/site/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile.php on line 101

Notice: Constant BP_XPROFILE_FULLNAME_FIELD_NAME already defined in /var/www/html/site/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile.php on line 102

Notice: Undefined index: fileupload_maxk in /var/www/html/site/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php on line 35

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$current_group in /var/www/html/site/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups.php on line 223

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /var/www/html/site/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups.php on line 223

Notice: Undefined variable: count_indicator in /var/www/html/site/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-messages.php on line 115

Notice: Undefined index: action in /var/www/html/site/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-signup.php on line 571

Notice: has_cap was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 2.0! Usage of user levels by plugins and themes is deprecated. Use roles and capabilities instead. in /var/www/html/site/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3387

[@r-a-y Keymaster 13 years, 9 months ago]

These are not errors, but debug notices.

Most of these debug notices have been fixed in the forthcoming version of BuddyPress.

Do you have WP_DEBUG defined?

[@mwp Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

Yes I have. But what I see is that I start getting 404 as soon as I install buddypress. And it doesn’t let me login once I logout. I then keep getting “You have already installed wordpress please login”. I had to re-instlal wordpress and struggling with getting buddypress up and running. I even tried updating .htaccess file as suggested earlier but that didn’t help.

What is wordpress doing with mod_rewrite? How can I debug if it’s being used or not?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 13 years, 9 months ago]

Did you enable pretty permalinks like mercime suggested? Are you using the latest version of BP?

Did you install WordPress in a subdirectory with these instructions?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

If so, there are bugs with BP 1.2.8 relating to subdirectory installs.

Please read this thread to resolve the login/logout issue for now:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/loginlogout-from-admin-bar-does-not-work

[@mwp Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

Yesterday I re-installed wordpress 3.1. I go to plugin and search for buddypress and then install it from there, I am assuming this gets me the latest version. At that time I did enable permalink.

What I do is I mv wordpress /var/www/html/.

How can I tell if re-write is working or debug this problem.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 13 years, 9 months ago]

Yes, using the admin panel to install BuddyPress will always download the latest, stable release.

Don’t move the wordpress directory! If you need to reinstall WordPress in the root directory, do it from scratch!