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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.
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”.
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.
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)
