[@pecosdave Participant 6 years, 4 months ago]

Well, wiped the www directory, gave it a clean database, removed the two default plugins and only installed Buddy Press, same error on group acceptance. As far as WordPress/BuddyPress is concerned that should have been a brand new system.

At least now I know it’s likely a system level issue, OR I’m the canary in the coal mine since I’m running new everything and the working hosts haven’t been updated yet.

[@pecosdave Participant 6 years, 4 months ago]

My “wipe” is just of the www directory. Messing with Nginx and getting PHP working on it isn’t something I want to duplicate unless I have to. Even if I move to some genuine metal I intend to copy my /etc/config directories over to the other system. I’m just going to copy the www directory to somewhere else, delete, and do WordPress and the plugins from scratch. Now that I have a solid idea of what I want and how to get there I should be able to do it more “cleanly” and see if that makes a difference. I must have installed and removed 100 plugins, who knows what kind of mess that left.

I haven’t decided on hosting yet – I may host it from my own cable access at home. I used to do a lot of my own hosting, but modern ISPs tend to make it more difficult. I have a buddy offering me some server space, I don’t know if it will be on a VMWare host (likely knowing him) or if I’m going to get some actual metal in a rack – also likely with him. If he host it I’m getting a minimum 2GB link.

That VVV link you gave me might be just what I need. The “What do you get” section has a list of things that seem to be important, I might just make sure I have them all. Obviously I have some of them, but the ones I don’t might be the difference between “member added” and “page expired”.

[@pecosdave Participant 6 years, 4 months ago]

I just now noticed the “notification counter” thingy on this site isn’t working right either – it’s still telling me about @shanebp replying to my original post and pretending I haven’t seen it two replies in.

[@pecosdave Participant 6 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks for the help, the Query Monitor seems infinitely helpful. I’ve been chasing down an OPcache error it keeps telling me about but doesn’t seem to be a big deal. Net result, I’ve gotten OPCache to work verified at the PHP level by the fact I enabled it and it didn’t bomb out due to a misconfigure.

I keeping getting “non-numerical value” php errors, but they don’t seem to be a real issue. When I examine the code, words like “left” and “right” aren’t numerical, but they seem to trigger the error.

Loading the “safe” themes seem to do nothing, I had the exact same results with 2017.

I’m seriously considering making note of what plugins I have, wiping the whole install and doing it from scratch. As I mentioned, I’m good at IT work in general but I’m new to this. I played with a lot of themes and plugins before getting to where I am now, a clean slate may be just what I need. I can even stick with the default theme and get what I want now.

(BTW – Nginx is new to me also, I used Apache when I played with other systems in the past)