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@M

Thanks for sharing this much-anticipated plugin.

Quick question: is there a way to limit the chat function to those who are friends? So that you can only chat with people you have “friended”?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1969&replies=2#post-10463

On another topic…is it good to create a ginormous robots.txt file? I’m wondering if that slows down your site at all.

I would place only what you need in your robots.txt file. The link I provide was just to show you that there are many, many bad bots out there. I would not implement the robots.txt file they recommend.

The fact hat yu are getting 500 instead of 404 error codes is a good clue. There must be some specific error showing up in Apache’s error log whenever that is fired. Please create the 500 error again, notice the exact time, and then check the log. What does it say?

Also, sometimes you can get a 500 error if directory or file permissions are not properly set. Where appropriate, they should be 755. Everything in /plugins/ that is BuddyPress specific should be set to 755.

A couple of additional questions while I’m at it:

1. Have you searched the WPMU forums for 500 Internal Server Error thread? I think this may be more related to you WPMu install than BuddyPress?
2. Are you using some special permalink structure? That should not be causing the lack of 404’s but every bit of info helps.
3. Did you carefully follow the readme.txt file that comes with WPMU?
4. Is this a new WPMU 2.7.1 install, or did you upgrade from an older version?

Westpointer-

This sounds like an interesting plugin. Thanks for your contribution!

Please consider submitting it to the WordPress plugin repository, tagged BuddyPress, when you feel it is ready to go. I’m sure many people will find this useful.

I will be interested in using this plugin myself on a new site I’ll be developing in about 2 months.

I am using WPMU 2.7.1 and Buddy Press 1.0-RC1.

I assume you mean BuddyPress 1.0, the public release version. If you truly are using 1.0-RC1, then I’d advise you to upgrade to the public release version when you get WPMU functioning properly.

If you are upgrading from RC1, use these instructions.

Are you using the vbulletin bridge for WordPress?

One quick comment – vb is a much more feature rich forum than bbpress. But, tools have been created to nicely integrate bbpress with buddypress groups. So, you’ll need to figure out how to handle the forums. If most of your traffic will be coming from the forums, you may want to look more closely at vb’s social networking tools.

@Erich73-

This is really a WPMU issue as the configuration files play a big role in getting multi-language support successfully setup.

Here are a few links that may help:

Home

http://www.poplarware.com/languageplugin.html

I would contact the people behind these projects and ask them if they’re working on BuddyPress integration.

These are not necessarily tools but some additional measures you can consider:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Over_SSL

https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/firewalling-and-hack-proofing-your-wordpress-blog/

Subster-

This sounds like a WPMU-specific support issue. These forums are for BuddyPress support. Please search the WPMU forums for an answer. If you cannot find one, then post a new thread there.

Aytac-

Is the premium theme BuddyPress enabled? Is it designed specifically for use with BuddyPress? If so, contact the theme designer and tell them of your issue. They are the ones who should be providing support.

If the premium theme is not designed to be used with BuddyPress, then choose a theme that is.

if I use default theme Buddypress admin bar is working well

Since this is not a BuddyPress support issue but an issue with a custom theme, I’m setting this to resolved. As you state, your site works fine with the defualt BP themes.

Jrothe-

And then a friend told me that Bluehost just allowed a one click Buddy Press install.

I’m not sure why some ISPs keep trying to push a BuddyPress one-click install option. BuddyPress is not stand-alone software. It requries WPMU. So, at best, and if this was even practical, you would need to click twice–once to intsall WPMU then another time to install BuddyPress.

I would be wary of such claims. Also, be advised that some people have had issues with this in the past, so if you go that route and come here asking for support we will ask how you installed BuddyPress.

Remember, BuddyPress is just a big WPMU plugin. So, you can download and activate it via the WPMU’s admin menus. You don’t need a questionable one-click install.

Okay, I did not see anything out of the ordinary in your PHPinfo file. Please delete that from pastebin for security reasons.

Actually I did have some mu-plugins still running, so now everything is out, just buddypress.

Okay, with just BuddyPress running now, are you still getting this error?

there is already topic about it, https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2552#post-13973 , hopefully somebody will help me to put it all toegether…

When will this plugin be available for download? Aswell as the bp-chat that you created? Great work!

It sounds to me like you’re installing BuddyPress on a non-MU installation of WordPress.

BuddyPress only works with WordPress MU.

Not all of them..

http://www.sportssonet.com/?p=1

http://www.sportssonet.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportssonet.com

It’s just the BuddyPress ones. Does your theme have the functions.php that came included with the bphome theme still there?

Can you copy/paste the contents of your .htaccess file here within code tags? Also, what are your permalink settings set to, or are they still just the default?

I am hosting on 1and1 in a shared hosting environment and I have the same problems that Gordon Bunker had. After making the same change to the buddypress-enable.php file, the forums finally work, but I cannot make a post to them. It comes up with the following error: “There was an error posting that topic” Not very informative is it?

I also get the ” -32300 >> transport error – HTTP status code was not 200 ” error when trying Burt’s “say hello” test.

Anyone figure out how to get around this in a shared hosting environment?

Is it time to give up and just go to another hoster? Any recommendations?

thanks!