[Danny O Dwyer]

Hi guys, thanks in advance for any help. Hoping its somthing obvious.

I’ve installed BP on my site recently. I can’t remember if it was before or after that, but in the past few days I changed the site directory from http://www.citizengame.co.uk/wp to the root (so http://www.citizengame.co.uk).

All my own links work fine (with the exception of screenshots which I guess I’ll have to re-link myself). But whenver I use the admin bar in Buddypress, they don’t work. The link brings me to http://www.citizengame.co.uk/members/danny/profile/public/ and a Page Not Found error. However if I put the /wp into that address (making it http://www.citizengame.co.uk/wp/members/danny/profile/public/) then the link works fine. PROFILE, MESSAGES and FRIENDS don’t work, but any non-profile links (such as GROUPS and ACTIVITY) work just fine and use the correct links (without the /wp)

I’ve checked the plugin files and the database for any residual “/wp” references, but nothing is there that would explain why ONLY the profile buddypress admin links aren’t pickung up on the new permalinks. I’ve tried

The curveball in this is that I don’t have a htaccess.dist file on the server (deleted by accident – i know, really dumb).
If its worth anything my .htacess file reads as follows (seems a bit light, right? no BP references):

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

[Danny O Dwyer]

Can anybody lend me a hand?

Even to show me what the default htacess.dist file looks like (cant find a copy anywhere)

[Vera Schafer]

I was having a hard time trying to find the .htaccess file on my iMac, until I figured out that it is a hidden file (I’m working on MAMP Pro). If that is your case (Mac) , you have to unhide it.

[Danny O Dwyer]

Thanks Vera, but I figured that nasty issue out earlier. Actually found the .dist file on my other machine in the meantime, but if I use it as the .htaccess file if returns a server error (500).

That was only a guess at the problem anyway – it might not actually be the issue. Like I said it’s only those specific links that reference a user page. It’s a funny one. Ill try add more info as I investigate.

Anybody else have any idea where permalink data may be held for Buddypress?

[Danny O Dwyer]

Okay I fixed it this morning, feeling relieved and dumb.

I went back over the changing directory readme:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

And realised that I still had multisite enabled (which I dont want to use). The bottom of the page mentioned thas it doesn’t work with directory switches such as this, so I took away the line (define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true ) in the wp_config file and everything works fine now.

It had nothing to do with htaccess.
/phew!

Oh, and here is a look at the site so far for anybody who’s interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuxSZsbT100