[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Yeah, that was pretty much where it hit the wall last night (I did kill my old .htaccess but that didn’t help). Canonical rules and gobbledygook in the DB are my odds on favorite. I’ve got the site back up and running, and I’m checking with the site members as to their preferences about BuddyPress etc. They may just say ‘screw it’ since only about 50 of ’em really used it.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Your ‘activity’ renaming issue: Does that happen when you rename the pages corresponding to *other* components, eg groups or members? How about the weird redirect thing?

No, I can rename other components just fine. I renamed register to joinsite and it worked.

I did the -R flag.

As for ‘how badly screwed up IS this site?’ well… It was WP 1.5 upgraded through to 2.8. Around the 2.5 era it had bbPress integration. At 2.9.2 I moved it to WPMU, THEN upgraded to WP 3.0 MultiSite. For 3.1, I realized I didn’t need multiple sites and undid it to SingleSite. Then I was wrong, redid MultiSite, upgraded to 3.2 and here we are. If your head spun around, don’t worry. It’s not just you!

So right now I’ve rebuilt it from the ground up, currently sans BuddyPress. Frankly, I’m pretty sure the issue is NOT BP, since my localhost site, with the same theme etc, worked just fine.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Since I forgot to test that last night… Same problems exist on the bp-default theme! Okay, now we’re cookin’ with heat.

Disabled my functions.php (renamed .txt) and the problem remains.

Stripped the site down to JUST BuddyPress and the BP Default theme, same problem.

I’m going with ‘My install is bollixed’

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

The weird thing was that with a copy of the theme it worked fine.

And the problem persists no matter what the page for Activity is named. I tried both renaming it and making a brand new page.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Okay, no matter what slug I use, the Activity page redirects. It DOESN’T (i.e. it works just fine) on a fresh install with all the same plugins.

I’m wondering if this is related to how I had to force define the bp-upload-dir (yes, it’s THAT install).

No errors in error_log of course.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Yeah I figured it was a theme, so I spun up a whole new install at http://consensualreality.net/wordpress/ Activity works, member profiles works. Begin head hitting desk.

As for the bupkis thing.

When I make a new page named ‘news’ (which I had … 2 months ago, but deleted it) or even ‘whats-new’ on it’s own, the page works.

If I make that the Activity page, it redirects again.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Yeah, I have no idea what happened. I downloaded it again and it happened again. At least I know how to fix it.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I forced it to 644 and it worked. New issue Of course!

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

… What the hell? Why are they all RW!!?

`
drwxr-xr-x 2 conrel conrel 4096 Aug 4 19:33 admin/
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 9731 Aug 4 19:33 bp-core-adminbar.php
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 27828 Aug 4 19:33 bp-core-avatars.php
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 20184 Aug 4 19:33 bp-core-buddybar.php
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 1304 Aug 4 19:33 bp-core-cache.php
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 14964 Aug 4 19:33 bp-core-catchuri.php
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 42189 Aug 4 19:33 bp-core-classes.php
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 9026 Aug 4 19:33 bp-core-component.php
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 5715 Aug 4 19:33 bp-core-cssjs.php
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 13440 Aug 4 19:33 bp-core-filters.php
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 48191 Aug 4 19:33 bp-core-functions.php
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 2233 Aug 4 19:33 bp-core-hooks.php
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 9315 Aug 4 19:33 bp-core-loader.php
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 39569 Aug 4 19:34 bp-core-template.php
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 12466 Aug 4 19:34 bp-core-widgets.php
-rw

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1 conrel conrel 1870 Aug 4 19:34 bp-core-wpabstraction.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 conrel conrel 4096 Aug 4 19:34 css/
drwxr-xr-x 2 conrel conrel 4096 Aug 4 19:34 deprecated/
drwxr-xr-x 2 conrel conrel 4096 Aug 4 19:34 images/
drwxr-xr-x 2 conrel conrel 4096 Aug 4 19:34 js/
`

Whole install is that way. Wow. I’ve uploaded plugins a million times and never run into that.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Darn, no. The weird bug I was thinking of was fixed in 1.2.7

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

What version of BP?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Did you upgrade BUDDYPRESS to the latest 1.2 version?

You can get the latest in the 1.2 series from https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4550/branches/1.2?old_path=%2F&format=zip (at time of writing. SVN is https://svn.buddypress.org/branches/1.2/)

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

In your theme’s style.css

Those are making calls to pull IN the BP ones.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Check to make sure your CSS validates before you jump too far down that rabbit hole.

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

if you want to customize the page, you can copy down the /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/messages down to your own theme (put it in /themes/yourtheme/members/single/messages ) and edit away.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

If you’re talking about the buddybar, read this: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

If you’re talking about the WordPress 3.0 admin bar, that’s different.

In either case, you want this code: `groups_is_user_member( $user_id, $group_id )`

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I have it on my setup right now. I’m not sure that it’s doing anything for BP, to be honest, but I also don’t know how to check I looked at the plugin page on my wp-admin side and it’s all `./wp-comments-post.php` down the board.

Cookies for Comments works, though.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Apparently there are some known problems with BuddyPress and “almost pretty” permalinks like index.php/whatevers. @djpaul was looking into it last year, and IIRC his quick ‘hack’ was to pull index.php from the permalinks and use .htaccess to work around it. Though I don’t know what your .htaccess would look like for that

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Twitter Tools will do your blog posts. Are you looking for that or something else that would tweet group posts?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

You shuoldn’t need testbudy listed in there twice.

By having your BASE set to /testbuddy that SHOULD remove the need to have /testbuddy/index.php specified.

`
# BEGIN WordPress

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

# END WordPress
`

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Also posted here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-vs-buddypress-strategy?replies=3 where folks had some answers

MultiSite = Multiple blogs/sites
BuddyPress doesn’t require multisite and it’s not a vs strategy, and more of a ‘What are your needs”

BP plugins can certainly do what you want, but so can a custom post types, or separate sites on a Network.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

What plugins ARE you running?

Cookies for Comments, for example, can do this if your cookie is set wrong.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Dupe https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/register-page-goes-nowhere/

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Stop making multiple posts.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

If you do it in widgets, you could use something like widget_logic() and then check for something like `if(bp_is_group_home())`

These type of template tags can be found in /bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php so you can narrow it down as you need