I have a brand new site with wordpress 3.0.1 installed in the root folder and with no additional themes or plugins installed. The very first plugin I have installed is buddypress. The moment I activate the plugin I get the white screen of death.

I have not activated any other features such as multisite, etc. I have followed the installation instructions precisely as they pitch on the bp homepage: Install wp; Head to your “Plugins ? Add New” menu and automatically install BuddyPress; but when I activate the plugin everything crashes and the dashboard remains that way until I disable the plugin via ftp.

I have several other wp powered sites hosted with the same host and no issues, which rules out possibilities of php or mysql versions.

Can anyone please guide me.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

Have you has a search through the posts for any solutions or pointers?

Most often when this issue arises as you describe it’s due to having insufficient PHP script memory allocated, if you have a search around you will find many posts on the subject dealing with this and the available methods to deal with a the script memory limit setting in php.ini

[@jaffri Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

Whats the needed memory size so that I can edit the htaccess file accordingly

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

As I mentioned a search would have answered this:
https://buddypress.org/search/?f=php+memory+limit