[@dcavins Keymaster 14 years, 4 months ago]

Make sure bbconfig.php has the correct database info in it (that file must be in the root of the web space). I had the same problem when moving from local testing to an actual server.

[@dcavins Keymaster 14 years, 4 months ago]

Try adding this to your wp-config.php file and see if it helps (make sure quotes are straight, too!):

`define( ‘BP_MESSAGES_AUTOCOMPLETE_ALL’, true );`

By default, the BP autocomplete will only check your friend list for matches, this makes it check against all users. This would be a bad idea if you had thousands of users.

[@dcavins Keymaster 14 years, 4 months ago]

Anyone have any ideas?

[@dcavins Keymaster 14 years, 4 months ago]

I didn’t have any luck with that setup either. My working setup for a site-wide forum is
1) Disable the BP Forum component altogether (BuddyPress>Components)
2) Don’t create a “Forum” page. If one exists, I got odd behavior, even if it was in Draft status. (Definitely don’t make a Forums page with the shortcode.)
3) Enable bbPress plugin
4) Create a new forum via the admin menu.
Now, when you go to your bbPress default slug, it should take over and build the page.

[@dcavins Keymaster 14 years, 4 months ago]

Try `echo bp_core_get_userlink( bp_loggedin_user_id() );` like Buddypress’s standard login form uses in the sidebar.

[@dcavins Keymaster 14 years, 4 months ago]

I can see that WP/BP is inserting the activation key record in the “usermeta” table and creating the user in the “users” table, with status set to “2”. On a successful activation, the usermeta record is deleted and the user’s status is changed to “0”. That’s the part that’s not happening. I’ve no idea why. BP is able to make other changes to the database, like making groups, adding friends, etc.

[@dcavins Keymaster 14 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks for your response.
The URL in the e-mail looks like:
http://my-sites-url/activate/?key=a264c42197f74a3b775e4f07a758d403
(/activate is the correct permalink)
I’m not using multisite. My site does use a custom permalink setup—the same permalink setup as the other sites that are working: (/category/post-name). The other BP pages work perfectly. I checked the BP>Pages option pane to make sure that the page associations were correct, and they look fine. (I re-saved the activation page association—sometimes that works with plugins, but no dice in this case.) The value for bp_pages looks OK in the wp_options table, too.

[@dcavins Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Thanks for the suggestion. I had a copy of bbconfig from my MAMP installation and bbpress couldn’t find its tables. Updating the bbconfig to the server settings fixed the problem.