Oh no, feared that. Too bad. Unfortunately it seems the best for me to fall back on one of the plugins enabling private messaging between wordpress users due to serious issues after moving folders last times.
Sorry, I recently noticed that the other member-related buddypress pages “activate” and “register” also don’t work properly. So it looks to me as the home’s content loads only with that same home-url (domain.com). Also, since syncing WordPress profiles now all members can be found in the list on the members page – other than stated in the topic’s title and first post.
Three other things I thought about:
1. My directory structure is as follows: (root)/folder/
folder then contains index.php and main wordpress-folder. Didn’t want multisite and tried to manage more sites that way.
2. I have added a new default user role before having installed buddypress. Originally working and added in my child theme’s functions.php.
3. Theme incompability? Theme twenty twelve had been modified very slightly. Seems unlikely to me.
I’m now through all of your steps and doublechecked all settings again and again. Finally I made a new installation from buddypress and repeated the steps one more time.
I haven’t activated bbpress yet as buddypress alone does’nt work already. Exact same issue as described above occurs: Can’t load any of the user profile pages (neither old members before nor newly added users after buddypress installation) while everything else is working.
