[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Give people more time to see your post (and I am on a train to work, so I can’t look at this)!

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

It’s when the admin hasn’t gone in and set the widget settings (maxiumum results shown, or similar)

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Reporting issues with the WordPress blog export function should go on to the WordPress forums or Trac. It’s not to do with BuddyPress.

Please everyone keep posts here on topic, civil and polite.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Well, of course he is, but I don’t have eight month old samples for *everything*. It’s pretty close for anyone who wants to implement this as a plugin.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Manoj, is that a WPMU bug?

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Not out the box. I have most of the code which would allow this to be done on my Mac at home. It’s one of my code projects part way through development

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Catherine’s on the money. This would make a good Trac enhancement ticket so we can see if it’s viable to hook into this WPMU page or not.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

I repeat myself: if you have come up with a patch which improves I18n in WordPress, then create a ticket on the core WP trac so people can look at it.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

If you are using a custom theme, switch to the default theme. It should work – if it does, you’ll need to merge the default theme functions.php with that of your custom theme’s.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Bit of a blast from the past, but: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/612

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Try reverting to the default theme and see if it works.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

You are using outdated versions of both WPMU and BuddyPress. I urge you to upgrade.

There was a bug in some previous version of BuddyPress to do with the wrong link being put on to the activation emails, but without knowing exactly why people can’t activate their accounts (i.e. do they get the emails? Does the link work? What happens?) it is tough to provide specific advice.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

This isn’t what you want, but thought I’d share as it’s sort of related and in case anyone comes across this post via Google at a later date – BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Hey, well done

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Customise the email message with specific text for your site so it is less likely to be identified as spam?

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Bet you £5 that the theme doesn’t have a call to the wp_footer action?

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

We need to revamp the FAQ thread and put this sort of host-specific information into it, because this alone has been mentioned countless times in various threads

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Probably only if you are seeing segfault errors or something like that in your web server/php/mysql error logs

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Other things stopping the DB tables being run is some sort of warning or error with PHP – often either a memory limit, CPU limitation, a problem with the web server itself, bad code or corrupt file.

1) Memory limit problem often reveals itself with “failed to allocate” in the apache/php error logs.

2) People have had mixed success running WPMU/BP on virtual hosted servers; I suppose it depends on the company you are using. If such an outside influence stopped activity *part way* through the BuddyPress installation, then you’d end up with a corrupt install. As a rule of thumb, avoid virtual hosted servers for WPMU/BP.

3) I’m a *unix man as far as web servers go, so I can’t talk for Windows. If you see “segfault” errors in WPMU/BP for Apache (or similar), you’ve probably got a library or versioning conflict — i.e. incompatibility between specific versions of PHP and MySQL, for example. These are really tricky to figure out what’s causing the problem, but if you’ve recently installed a new version of your web server/mysql/php etc, this could be why.

4) Bad code or corrupt file – how is everyone in this thread installing BuddyPress? Via the automatic plugin installer? If so, try to FTP files up to your server – or better yet, SSH and use a shell to install the files yourself.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

DB tables not being created is an odd one. On a pristine, virgin WPMU setup, when installing BuddyPress and clicking ‘activate sitewide’ (or whatever it is) in the admin plugin page, it obviously tells WPMU to load this plugin on each page load from then on.

What BuddyPress does as soon as it is included (i.e. when the admin page reloads itself to show you that the ‘plugin has been activated’ successfully), is check to see if certain values exist in the wp_sitemeta DB table – i.e. bp-activity-db-version, bp-core-db-version and so on. If those aren’t set, then the SQL is run to create the database tables.

As an aside, this is what people run into when they delete the BuddyPress plugin files and DB tables in an attempt to “reinstall” BuddyPress – the tables are never recreated because those database records in wp_sitemeta still exist (so BuddyPress thinks it is still installed). Bit of a long shot but none of you have done this?

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

[Fri Nov 06 10:31:16 2009] [error] php-script: line 8: 21868 Segmentation fault /usr/bin/php-cgi

[Fri Nov 06 10:31:16 2009] [error] Premature end of script headers: php-script

This is a server issue.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Brajesh is correct. Also:

1) This thread is 10 months old. Zombies ahoy.

2) BP 1.1.1 and WPMU 2.8.5 aren’t the latest versions of their respective. I urge you to upgrade immediately.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

If it wasn’t obvious, for every person who reports a problem, we need this information. Saying that you have the “same problem” is possible but unlikely.

If BP didn’t create its tables on activation, delete everything and try again — in a totally clean database (if only for testing purposes) with new files. Jeff’s elaborated on this point above. Something must have done to stop the install scripts running correctly; either a mistake on your part or an error on your server. Quite possibly if you are trying to use WPMU/BP on a virtual hosted server, you are going to quickly exceed memory and execution limits.

Manually installing the BuddyPress tables is only putting a band-aid over whatever the source of your original problem is; most likely that problem will bite you later.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Closing this as Andrea has the answers and this thread is two months old.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

I’m working on something which in part of sort of related, and have spoken to someone else who was looking at different area. All of this is not easy to do.

I’d not be expecting to see 1.4 until mid/late next year.