Hi everybody,

Get some message after clicking at menues “Groups” and so on. The requested URL /groups/ was not found on this server.
After installing buddypress there is nothing “behind” the menus “Activity”, “Members” and so on.
Installed Buddypress 1.2.4 with wp 3.0.1 (see “www.familie-stracke.net”). Did nothing else (no groups, forums etc. installed). Theme is default.
Multi site and german speech also installed; but didn’t even work without multi site or with original speech.
Any idea?
Thank’s for any hint! Thomas

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

? BP 1.2.4 you need to install 1.2.5.2

If you have really installed 1.2.4 try upgrading it to 1.2.5 and see if that makes a difference and report back.

[@per4mance2 Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

I’ve the same problem. After I changed the permalinks to ‘/index.php/%category%/%postname%/’ for running buddypress there is nothing behind ACTVITY, MEMBERS, GROUPS. I run a complete new WP 3.0.1 with buddypress 1.2.5.2. There is no Guide after the installation of the buddypress plugin. What’s wrong?

Thanks for help!

[@umberrella Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

Yes, I run into this problem too. I used the plugin to make my theme compatible with bp. and step 1 was succeeded, files were moved. Then I could go to step three. There it tells me to check links under “my account”. nothing works.

[@umberrella Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

hmm I noticed… the urls point to: the-url.com/members/admin/activity/ while that plugin have moved the members folder into my theme folder. I think this moving did not go as it should be?

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

People The community , must as a whole, stop this practice of hijacking threads we now have three questions running in the same thread this practice isn’t tolerated on most tech forumsd due to the confusion that thread dissolves into.

The first thing all three of you must check is that your permalinks are working correctly and that the server can write to the .htaccess file

[@per4mance2 Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Hi … more information I need, because I wrote above that the problem still exists.

See my first Buddypress http://www.unitedcasting.de/ please. BuddyPress did not created directories or files for ‘acitivity’, ‘members’ or ‘groups’. I use Windows 2003 R2 Server in English with MySQL 5.1.46, PHP 5.2.13, WP 3.0.1 and BP 1.2.5.2. All WP Blogs work fine without any problems. Why does Buddypress do not work as it should? Where are the files behind the directories of BP? Does the BP plugin need special rights?

Thanks for help!!!

[@strackus Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

Sorry, I was mistaken. My bp-version infact IS 1.2.5.2.
But I cant’ find any .htaccess-file (Cyberduck-Options is to _show_ any “.”-files.) Neither can’t find any with my provider’s explorer-tool, too.
Did start some trouble-ticket to my provider, will wait what he tells me. Wasn’t shure wether I should create any such files and what to write in.
Thank’s for feedback! Thomas

[@per4mance2 Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Ok, I found one hint in Buddypress German Forum of WordPress, see http://forum.wordpress-deutschland.org/buddypress/73994-seite-nicht-gefunden-members-usw.html

I post there a solution for the normal menu. The ‘index.php’ file is missing in the permanent structure, maybe there is something different between the WP English and WP German version of 3.0.1. So all of you have the URL http://www.yourdomain.com/groups/. Please change it in your Browser to http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php/groups/ and check if you’ll get a page. Change ‘yourdomain.com’ in your real domain. See my page http://www.unitedcasting.de/index.php/groups/ – it works.

But now I’ve to search for the links under ‘MyAccount’ and ‘Notifications’. Maybe someone knows where the file is safed. Thanks.

[@umberrella Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

yes, this seems to work Thorsten. I’ll search with you for how to adjust that links under “myaccount”and “notifications”

@hnla both checked. work.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@strackus you need an .htaccess file. What happens when you change permalink settings? change them to another setting and report any messages seen on the screen about creating/writing to the file. You shouldn’t have to create the file but your server must be able to write and read to this file. What server are you running on? not IIS by any chance?

[@per4mance2 Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Ok Guys! I found the solution for IIS Server! There is a problem with the ‘mod_rewrite’ function, it does not work. Here is the solution and I tried it and it works. Please take a look at http://www.kylecaulfield.com/permalink-for-wordpress-iis-6-mod_rewrite-fixed-free

The result of my new Buddpress can be viewed here http://www.unitedcasting.de/

Sorry for the try above, but it’s no really good solution, so I switched into the original theme file of Buddypress theme.

Many hours today for this result and nobody knewed that. Maybe a problem of Windows worker like me

[@christinarule Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

@Thorsten that also worked for me…
When using buddypress how do you change it so when you click on “my account”, or any link for that matter, it calls out http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php/groups/ Mine is still defaulting to http://www.yourdomain.com/groups/ even though I changed the permlink settings in my wordpress dashboard

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@christinarule : unfortunately, I don’t know how to set your links to include index.php, but confused why you would want that? Without the index.php will give you better search engine performance, as well as being more human readable

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Ditto what roger says. Adding the index.php path part into the url is only something I’ve seen in reference to the ‘Almost Pretty Permalinks’ There is no reason to want this really; it certainly will not aid search engines.

If you must do this have you tried writing a custom permalink structure? never tried this myself as never seen the need, with the prebuilt options available.

[@christinarule Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

Well the only reason I was setting my permalinks to /index.php/%category%/%postname%/ was because if I didnt ( if i would just set them to /%category%/%postname%/) then my whole site would break… I couldnt click on any other page with out getting a “not found” error.

Even when I set my perma linking to /%category%/%postname%/ my buddy press still goes to a “not found page”

Am I missing something??

I thought maybe updated my wordpress would do the trick so thats what I did last night… and still nothing… in fact now im just left with an even MORE broken site. I guess some of my plug ins arent working correctly with wordpress latest version.

[@christinarule Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

here is a visual…incase it makes more sense http://christinarule.com/bperror.jpg

[@christinarule Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks in advance

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

I think there is something wrong in your basic install / wp-config.php / .htaccess setup. I’m surprised to see your blog pages have index.php in the url, even though you’ve set /%category%/%postname% as the custom structure.

I suspect the problem is not in BuddyPress, but perhaps in the basic underlying install structure.

Unfortunately, I’m not an expert on fixing this though. Anyone else able to help?

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@christinarule – if you post your .htaccess and wp-config.php files (use pastebin.com). It might help pinpoint the problem.

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@christinarule – also, do you have anything in the category base field on the permalink page?

[@christinarule Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

.htacess

# BEGIN WordPress

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

# END WordPress

wp-config:

<?php
/**
* The base configurations of the WordPress.
*
* This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,
* Secret Keys, WordPress Language, and ABSPATH. You can find more information by
* visiting { @link https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php Editing
* wp-config.php} Codex page. You can get the MySQL settings from your web host.
*
* This file is used by the wp-config.php creation script during the
* installation. You don’t have to use the web site, you can just copy this file
* to “wp-config.php” and fill in the values.
*
* @package WordPress
*/

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘***’);

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘***’);

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”);

/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

/**#@+
* Authentication Unique Keys.
*
* Change these to different unique phrases!
* You can generate these using the { @link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/ WordPress.org secret-key service}
* You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again.
*
* @since 2.6.0
*/
define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
/**#@-*/

/**
* WordPress Database Table prefix.
*
* You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique
* prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
*/
$table_prefix = ‘wp_’;

/**
* WordPress Localized Language, defaults to English.
*
* Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen
* language must be installed to wp-content/languages. For example, install
* de.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’ to enable German
* language support.
*/
define (‘WPLANG’, ”);

/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined(‘ABSPATH’) )
define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’);

/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’);

[@christinarule Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

@ roger…”also, do you have anything in the category base field on the permalink page?”

I really am not 100% sure.. I just was sopse to be the designer… I paid a developer back in May and he still hasnt finished it and wont contact me… (awesome!)

I appreciate your help….

[@christinarule Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

also just realized i didnt use paste bin correctly… Im sorry!

[@christinarule Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

I also should note that in this image http://christinarule.com/bperror.jpg the image on the right…if I click on a buddypress link its takes the index.php out of the URL but if I add it in myself then it works… maybe I need to somehow make it put in the index.php idk how else id do that since Im already doing that in the permalink setting

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@christinarule –

other than the check for mod_rewrite.c, you have the same .htaccess that I have in a default install, with permalinks set to /%category%/%postname%/ (http://playground.21inspired.com is a simple default install).

My .htaccess:
# BEGIN WordPress

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

# END WordPress

Unfortunately, this is beyond my area of expertise. Hopefully, someone else can help you get rid of index.php in your urls, and get the blog & BuddyPress urls resolved correctly.

Other quick thoughts: is your .htaccess in your site’s root directory? Do you have other .htaccess files in the subdirectories? Does your server support mod_rewrite?

Anyone able to help?