Hi all,

I am currently re-building our magazines main site, and have a full wordpress installed on a test server, at http://www.phonic.ie/wp

3 days ago, I installed buddypress and using the buddypress template pack plug-in I was able to install Buddypress alongside my existing theme. So I did that, and now I have a buddypress admin bar running along the top of the website. Happy days!

My problem is that when I click on any of the links, I get a 404 message. I am using pretty permalinks in wordpress, and they are working fine normally. I figured out that after I click a link in the buddypress bar and get a 404, the address in the browser is like this:

http://www.phonic.ie/wp/members/admin/friends/

Which doesnt work. However, if I then manually type in “index.php” so that the link reads:

http://www.phonic.ie/wp/index.php/members/admin/friends/

The link then works perfectly. So if I was able to get that index.php into each link in the buddypress bar, they would all work!

I am using windows hosting, so do not have access to apache mod_rewrite in case that is the problem. I have been trying everything that I have read on forums for the last 3 days, but with no luck.

I dont know any PHP code, but If I am given the code, I can usually implement it okay.

Can anybody help me with this? I have run out of ideas!!

Thanks in advance!

[@fluxy Member 13 years, 4 months ago]

Actually, just to add this. Before, when I added the index.php into the link in the browser, it directed me to the right page. Over the last few days, I’ve done some jigging around with solutions I have found on the net, including stuff like adding a .htaccess file and a PHP bit of code here and there (I take them afterwards out if they dont work) but now for some reason when I add the index.php it just returns me to the homepage each time, so something has changed. It still does this even after I delete the .htaccess file.

[@modemlooper Moderator 13 years, 4 months ago]

Change permalinks structure in admin to something else and save and see what happens.

[@fluxy Member 13 years, 4 months ago]

I have tried that, changed it to every option, same result. Have tried most things like that. Changing permalinks, changing htaccess etc etc. Have literally no idea where to go next!

[@djpaul Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

index.php-style permalinks, usually found on some IIS installations but not all, do not work with BuddyPress out of the box. One option is to figure out a way to automatically prefix all incoming URLs with index.php that don’t have them already, perhaps in the equivalent of a .htaccess file. However, I’ve not had to sort this out before and I don’t have any experience with IIS.

[@fluxy Member 13 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks Paul If anybody knows a way to do that in IIS, I would really love if you could help me out!

[@stigmartyr Member 13 years, 4 months ago]

In IIS Manager, go to the virtual directory and click right / properties, there you can go to the documents tabs and set up the “enable default content page” to index.php

IMHO Apache runs circles around IIS, on our win2k8 server we’re running apache and php instead.

This article might also help you translate .htaccess to an IIS webconfig, too (if needed) :http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/557/translate-htaccess-content-to-iis-webconfig/

As an M$ engineer IIS is not something I would rather rely on for production sites unless you have M$’s budget to just throw more servers at the load and be able to deal with a few coming off the rails while you sort things out (yes even in IIS7). That’s why I’m a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) admin when it comes to things I own and care about.

If you’re not planning to be working with ASP or need active directory integration with desktop PCs, and that sort of thing there’s no need for it. I say let WordPress run on it’s native environment.