[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

I’m not sure I understand. Let me say what I think you are saying.

You installed mu and bp. Created some user accounts and then created blogs for each user. You wrote some posts on each of those blogs. The posts are showing up on those blogs as expected.

(I’m back) I just signed up for a blog and posted to my new blog. The new post shows up in the ‘recent’ area on your home theme. When you setup mu those ‘hello world’ posts just show up as part of the install process.

Then you install bp. After bp is installed and working, then your blog posts show up. It doesn’t pick up pre-bp install posts.

Everything seems to be working ok there. You are farther along than others are. Now the real fun begins.

Oh, I bookmarked your site. Let me keep the blog. I’ll be back. I just want to know what the heck you are doing. I have no idea what that welcome msg implies.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

oceandoctor

Did you try to upload a custom avatar? Then it gives you an error msg? If so check the permissions on the /wp-content/blogs.dir and all subdirs. 755 with the apache user and group having write permission.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

mt for me

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

Nope. I’ve reproduced it on windows. Not on linux. I can’t figure out how parts of a member url: (cotreball.com/members/lmmartin) are getting into the group url. Lemme go check some things…

OK. I did reproduce your problem. You are logging into a subdomain on your site. You are going to ‘my account’ > groups > create a group and then do all the steps to create a new group/upload the avatar. I did that and it’s using a trash url to find the avatar. This only happens when you are logging directly in to a subdomain and not the mu root blog.

It’s using the wrong url when it stores the avatar url. It is using your ‘mysite.org/members/lmmartin’ for the url and it should be using ‘mysite.org’. The avs are there, it just thinks they are somewhere else. I’ll put in a ticket to trac. This is fixable now.

Like I said. You are not doing anything wrong. Try logging out. Going to the mu root blog cotreball.com. Logging in there and then creating a group.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

@ottochen you are having these problems using the home theme on what blog? The root mu blog id 1? Or are you activating the home theme on a subdomain blog. That’s ok but the ‘news’ not working is indicative of running home on a subdomain.

I just looked at the code. The home theme should get the latest blog posts on the blog it’s activated on now. There was a restriction in there that caused it to fail on subdomains with 404. Andy made it go away.

@belogical things fail 404 if:

they aren’t there

apache/.htaccess rewrites things and they aren’t where we tell apache they are

bp snags those urls (which it does) and things aren’t where they should be

What do your error logs say when you hit: news, members, …

The mysite.org/blogs, mysite.org/news … urls for bp directories are just virtual urls. bp hooks them and goes out happily trying to run the appropriate code. It might be a permissions problem. Not found can also mean Not accessable.

Error logs?

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

OK, I’ll bite. What’s WUWP?

Perhaps you can tell us some more about your install.

bp version?

mu version?

mu subdomain or subdirectory?

can you create and access blogs in mu?

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

Howdy, the area I think you are talking about is the default form when you view a member’s profile right? ‘me’ > profile > public. The template that generates that screen is in /member-themes/buddypress-member/profile/index.php

You’ll see the calls to generate all the sections on that page. One of them is the wire. Line 47:

<?php bp_wire_get_post_list( bp_current_user_id()… and so on …

You were gonna make a copy of the theme, make whatever changes you need to run a custom bp member theme and edit that one right? I think it’s in the bp rules and code of conduct. I’ll have to check.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

6d6

Your site seems to be working other than you don’t have any members, groups, activity, or blog posts to see. Since I can’t login and can’t create a blog without logging in then there isn’t much else to tell you. You seem to have created a blog on a subdomain.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

In /mu-plugins/bp-blogs/bp-blogs-widgets.php line 47 is: <?php $counter++; ?>

Comment that out and you’ll get the excerpt for all the posts instead of just the first one.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

When you are viewing your site, not the backend admin area, from the menu bar at the top of the screen My Account > Groups > Create a Group. If you don’t see a menu bar then you have to flip the Site Admin > BuddyPress > Show admin bar for logged out users switch to ‘yes’.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

The ‘welcome message’ they are talking about is a widget that you can place anywhere in your theme that is widget enabled. Sidebars. You can find it under ‘Widgets’ in the backend. Open it up and you can put whatever text you want in there.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

I had the same problem installing locally on my vista box. I tried setting up mercury and some other email server and just gave up on it. It wasn’t worth the trouble. I wound up just creating users through site admin > users > add user

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

Do you have mu setup, configured and running correctly? Can you create new blogs, post to those blogs… Look at your apache/php error logs what do they say?

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

Hi jimgroom. You planning on causing some social networking havoc over at umw.edu soon? Haven’t you caused enough trouble already there?

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

Thanks nicola. They teaching php in school in Italy now?

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

Having fun yet dkbuddy? mu just isn’t designed to operate on anything less than a real host with all the trimmings. Lots of little gotchas involved with anything less than that. It is possible but not pleasant.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

Nicola, what is it you are looking for? A personal blog for each user? I think this is a good idea also. Actually I’d like to extend that concept to group blogs also. Blogs need to be more integrated into the bp framework.

Every member needs a blog and every group needs a blog all integrated into the theme like the wire and forums. My next little project, when I get time, will be to create a ‘Group Blog’ plugin that allows a blog admin to configure their blog as a ‘Group Blog’. This will allow instant author/contributor status to specific Groups.

Then I need to modify the member theme to integrate Blogs into it like the Forums are integrated. Not going to have time til after the 1st of the year though.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

That you ‘toriq’ from #buddypress? Howdy.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

Sorry, got excited when I thought I had found a fellow sufferer. If your box doesn’t have access to a dns name server you’ll still have to edit your /etc/hosts file probably just like windows. Or install mu with the subdirectory option.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

Mike: if you are gonna mod the adminbar may I suggest this? A plugin that does the work for you without modifying the admin bar code. Andy made some changes to the adminbar to make it possible to replace menu entries easily and add new menu items between existing menu options. I use a plugin to do this. Used to modify it every time a change came thru SVN and got tired of that.

Here’s what I use:

http://pastie.org/344208

That’s a link to the code for a little plugin I use. What that does is it adds a new top level menu item ‘Community’ with the News, Members and all the other items that are available in the home and member themes as buttons.

You’ll need to modify this for your needs but it’s an example of how to add a new top level menu item and all the drop downs. The function oci_get_community_blog_url() goes out and gets some site options I have installed in my root blog theme. I don’t run the home theme on the mu root blog. I run it on community.ourcommoninterest.org. That menu gives access to the ‘community’ directories and recent activity. All the bp home theme stuff.

More on the adminbar in this ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/174

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

You are running on windows right? Just a guess. Before installing bp you need to get mu running properly. It’s a pain on windows. What package are you using? WAMP?

To get your subdomains to work you have to edit the ‘hosts’ file in windows for *each* blog you want to have running on your windows box. The hosts file is in:

Windows 95/98/Me c:windowshosts

Windows NT/2000/XP Pro c:winntsystem32driversetchosts

Windows XP and Vista c:windowssystem32driversetchosts

Once you find it you have to create a line for each blog so:

127.0.0.1 ourcommoninterest.dev

127.0.0.1 adminstoy.ourcommoninterest.dev

That’s a sample from my laptop which I use to play with new things in mu, buddypress and bbpress. This is only the beginning of your problems on windows. I know I went thru *all* of them.

However, for now, you should replace the domain name with your chosen domain name. Replace the subdomain name with any blog subdomain name you’ve chosen. ‘trial’ in your case.

Try reading up on what it takes to install mu. Then what it takes to install mu on windows. Google finds lots of things related to mu. Here’s a start:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=4624

You also need to follow the directions in the mu readme.txt file as it relates to apache.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

What a great idea. Never thought of that. That message about ‘you have no friends’ (something like that) is kinda bleak. We could have the system send them a ‘friendship request’ from admin. That way they learn a little about the adminbar and the member theme right away. That glaring (1) next to notifications would be hard to resist. Click Me.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

I see what’s happening. The directories (member,group and blog) all have their own css files. When you access a directory it loads your theme css and then it loads the directory css. You’d have to ask Andy for sure but my guess would be that the reason is that the directories can be launched from any theme. Not just the bp themes.

If I’m running the bp home theme on a blog. The bp home theme loads the bp home theme css. If I’m running a normal wp theme on a blog then that theme loads it’s css.

The directories don’t know or care what theme they are running in. They have to be able to run in any theme.

I’d post in trac and ask for a mod that loads the directory css as part of the standard style.css/loader.php sequence. Everything else is getting loaded except that. Then your custom.css stuff will override the directory css.

People that are running a theme other than the bp themes will have to seek a different solution.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

I was just kidding wardeh. That kinda thing happens all the time. Yes chat is better for interactive conversations.

[@burtadsit Participant 17 years, 10 months ago]

Editing on each and every update to bp is probably not productive to your sanity. If custom.css isn’t having any effect then either it’s not loading before the directory css or it’s not loading at all when the directory is run. In either case it’s either a design decision or just an oversight.