[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Have you a working .htaccess file? mod_rewrite.so installed and enabled? Groups/Owner perms set up correctly to allow necessary file / directories to be read / written to?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Yes but have a read through of the codex pages please as they answer this question in more detail.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Use the conditional function `is_user_logged_in()` in an ‘if’ conditional before the field in question.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Try and avoid auto installs altogether, they tend to lead to tears, and long posts trying to track down issues that eventually transpire to have little to do with the apps in question.

WP and BP are best installed manually – not hugely difficult or time consuming.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

type quicker forget about spellinh or pugnination

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Nothing on this page?

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks mercime but I did say that

You must either reference a parent theme using the template line at the top of the file or have a index.php in the theme folder- essentially there must be a index.php file referenced for the theme to not be broken

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Yes, please don’t pick up 8 month old threads please

Have you created all the necessary parts at the top of the file ? Are you referencing a parent theme correctly? Have you read through the page in the codex explaining how to create child themes

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Yes, have a read through the Codex documentation, then if any questions post back to this thread.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

@residentcusano I have closed the other two threads, please take heed of my comments in one of them and also of modemloopers above.

There is a right way and a wrong way to ask questions on tech forums the RFC on the subject is this link below, it might pay to give it a little glance over.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Thread closed you have asked this question three different times, please avoid these multiple posts you are making.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

What does it say in the readme text, what does the authors homepage say? buddypress.org is a support forum for matters directly related to BP and it’s default theme and plugins that are specific to it.

Someone here may know of this plugin but in general you should ask these questions of the plugin author and/or study the installation guides.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Sounds like an issue with the custom theme, does this happen if you use the default BP theme?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

@ residentcusano can you please not simply jump around posts with the same question, you have asked this in another post , once only is the golden rule, please also could you start to actually ask questions in a detailed and considered manner rather than simply barking out requests that are somewhat vague it’s up to you to make things as clear as possible so that people can help you effectively.

Closing this thread.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Is it not the case that you simply need to read this page? or are there other issues I’ve missed?

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Not sure that focusing on DNS resolving is going to make much difference, in theory the root name servers and all the other DNS servers cache lookup results and typically only visit a SOA server once every 24 hours to update so once servers have cached results the registrar or primary dns servers play little part in things This depends on how you are managing things I guess, does your parked domain use the registrars DNS servers or do you reference another DNS server? you might want to try pointing your domain name to a different DNS server, try using ZoneEdit which allow up to 2? free records.

Yesterday was the first time I visited your site (therefore neither I nor probably my ISP had a cached record of the IP) and my request resolved quickly so somewhere along the route a cached copy of the records were found and used, I also found the site fast and responsive but then again that is not a true test as you have that cache plugin running – out of interest have you disabled that to see whether it makes a difference, it’s not interfering in some manner, I believe that in certain configurations it can cause issues.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

This one is useful:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/here-come-the-spammers/

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

I really wouldn’t advise playing any games for many reasons;consider, you won’t see any pros taking this sort of action!

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

You should take care adding bans on IP’s it’s a little frowned on and can affect legitimate users, Most spammers will be spoofing their addresses they don’t want to be tracked so adding these IPs is likely not really doing much.

There are plenty of tips and tricks if you hunt through the forum threads to reducing spam signups.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Don’t doubt there isn’t one common string to latch onto you’ll probably have to run a few sorts, going to be agony whatever method one takes really, you could try .info that may take care of quite a few?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Sounds like time to get stuck into phpMyAdmin and use it’s search to try and locate just emails ending in .info or similar spammy email addies and delete the rows directly in the DB, might be some genuine ones but probably less than in WP backend which has no sort capability

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Generally directories should have index options directive set to disable to prevent viewing a directory tree of files within it, when you see an empty index file in a directory it’s generally there as a safe guard as an index file would be served up if found rather than tree view of files if the option indexes is set to allow.

A php file is not possible to view as it can only be executed by the server.

A CSS file which essentially a plain ansi text file is always viewable from it’s directory http://example.com/styles/style.css

You can try and protect these sorts of files but for anyone with basic skill levels it’s fairly easy to circumvent protections.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Forum is attached to a group, the group creator gets to decide on whether there is a forum created for a group.

There are plugins that will provide control over who can create groups such as:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Your hardware specs are a little outdated, although in theory 1.5GB ram is sufficient to run a fairly busy box. I would want Xeon or better processors on a production box but failing that core quad or duo. I suspect with that present setup your hard drives may be a bit of a weak link as well.

You new spec sounds much better, although not sure what you mean by keeping back hard drives for desktop? 5 drives would optimally be configured in a raid 1+5 (never can remember raid sets) mirrored then stripped, cuts the the total space by half then stripes across the mirror; with a fast 1500rpm drive read/write speeds will be very fast.

Not sure about the DNS question although doubt that this is actually an issue in this scenario but my watchword to a degree is ‘not all eggs in one basket’ so I tend to keep certain things separated and park my domains one place then either IP point them and use the registras DNS as separate from the hosting box or specify a third party dns service such as ZoneEdit which is fast and reliable. If I need to move domains I can do so quickly and I’m also assured on running on dedicated reliable server for DNS purposes.

Regarding the tweat I would perhaps not may too much heed to that, I tried to ping your site and received 100% packet loss, this may well be for the reason that the network is deliberately not returning icmp echo requests – technically a violation of protocols but I understand that it is somewhat considered now a security aspect and I guess blocking ping requests prevents echo flooding?

Your mention of failure to connect to DB is an aspect that puzzles me, and think you need to start to examine your server logs in detail when events happen, ultimately this is the purpose of logs and the only way you can ever actually investigate and establish what is happening.

As for splitting off the DB to another machine, yes it gives great performance benefits but not to the degree that will make a huge difference to your situation it would simply be overkill, unless you were experiencing really high loads, if you can do it it wouldn’t hurt but simply getting one server running at best and all your network connections as fast as possible is going to make the most noticeable difference.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

this isn’t a BP issue it’s a general web dev one and given the nature of how things work it isn’t possible nor should one try.

It’s often asked but the fact is that you can’t really consider CSS or markup as copyright or unique , you can’t stop people taking chunks of code or whole stylesheets and given that vast amounts of CSS is taken from elsewhere nowadays anyway makes it even more pointless.

No doubt someone will chip in with the usual scripts to prevent or obfuscate CSS but the fact is that you allow a browser to download these files so you can’t really prevent people copying stuff.

Images, copy, that’s another issue as these can be covered by ‘rights’ a set of layout graphics same thing you can forbid there use expressly as they represent a unique design and your graphics are automatically your property until you sign the rights to them away.

Oh and myspace copyrighting their CSS – stuff and nonsense it would never hold up.