Well, it seems like you have an issue, alright. Let’s go down the list once again:
- You’re working with a current trunk of both WPMU 2.7.1_beta1 (current: r1725) and BuddyPress 1.0_RC2 (current: r1324)
- You’re using an old copy of wp-config.php which you updated as appropriate. In other words, you did not use the wp-config-sample.php that came with WPMU 2.7.1.
- You did a clean install of WPMU 2.7.1_beta1 by deleting everything, except your updated version of wp-config.php, and then uploaded the unzipped Mu files
- You then launched WPMU’s admin screen. That worked with out any problems.
- You then went to Site Admin > Upgrade and finished the upgrade
- You logged out of WPMU
- Next, you installed BuddyPress by:
- moving the contents of the unzipped BuddyPress 1.0_RC2 (r1324) to the WPMU plugins directory into a subdirectory called /buddypress/
- moving the /bp-themes/ directory out of the /buddypress/ directory
- placing the various themes in their proper locations
- You then logged back into WPMU and got a blank screen
A few follow up questions:
9. You’ve enabled error reporting as detailed above by John and Burt and after step 8 above, there are absolutely no errors being reported of any kind.
A few thoughts:
- Since this seems to be a test install and you do not have any content that needs saving, I would delete everything once again.
- This also means deleting your MySQL table that you’ve been using for this attempt and starting with a brand new database.
- I would then download the latest trunks of both WPMU and BuddyPress once again–>get rid of the old ones first.
- I would then use the wp-config-sample.php file that comes with the latest WPMU trunk and configure as necessary
- IMPORTANT: I believe when I downloaded the WPMU trunk (r1722) and looked at the wp-config-sample.php file, it had a trailing space after the closing php tag. You need to delete this!
- Now, go through steps 1 through 7 again and let’s hope when you get to step 8 it works!
I don’t think you are seeing the errors that are happening. The error log is the apache error log for your webserver. In most cases the php errors and warnings get sent there.
You said you asked your host to give you a backup and got back all the old tables. Try installing wpmu from scratch. Start with a fresh database that is empty. Install and test wpmu with the new database. Then install and activate bp.
anyone else having issues with IE 6 and the “buttons”
i.e.
accept friends
deny friend
etc
– they all display far right and cause a big scroll bar..
– so the user doesnt know they’re their
(damn you IE 6)
Version 1.1. should appear shortly on https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/. In addition to working with the latest BuddyPress, it also lets you specify more than one person/group as the default friends/groups.
Nicola-
Very nice!
I will investigate this for one of our projects. It could help with something we’ll be working on next month.
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OK – what I did now:
1. I deleted everything that is, keeping the wp-config.php
2. WPMU works, I could delete blogs, create new ones
3. I copied the BP-Components per ftp in plugins/buddypress (which I created anew)
4. BLANK – everywhere
5. NO entry in the PHP-Log at all
6. Deleted the BP-COmponents per FTP, WPMU works again just fine
I guess the activation of the activated BP-Plugin (as descriped above…) caused somehow a DB-Messup.
if i were you, i would reinstall wpmu & bp keeping the wp-config.php
Is this the code to one of the top buttons you mean in the header.php
<?php if ( function_exists( ‘bp_blogs_install’ ) ) { ?>
<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_BLOGS_SLUG ) ) {?> class=”selected”<?php } ?>>/<?php echo BP_BLOGS_SLUG ?>” title=”<?php _e( ‘Blogs’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>”><?php _e( ‘Blogs’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>
<?php } ?>
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@Felix2009 I really like the blue! 
I’ve been working on Squidoosphere.com. Will probably do a re-launch within the next few days after I clean up the test posts.
And a BIG Thanks to the BuddyPress developers! BuddyPress was just what I was wishing for!
Cheers!
John James, thanks for your “hack”. At least I was able to get to the backend with it. There it gave me Pages of error when I tried to start the plugins overview… I guess, since it is a very simple Test-Install – I’ll ask my provider to give me the backup. Or I delete everything (the messed up DB too) and start again…
Thanks for the hint about the upgrade – I will do that in the future.
Thanks for everyone who tried real hard…
Michael
I am running MAMP on a mac OS, I followed andys instuctions in a former post, I have a custom theme that I used so I copied the functions files to the members theme as per the instuctions as well as the functions from the home theme to my home theme.
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1994
It is not a cache issue or cookies or anything, it physically was not loading the style sheet which is stored in bp-themes/bp-members/css/directories.css, I got it working by putting the name into the loader.php file which is stored in the same place.
what I need now though is the header.php that is called within the groups/index.php and members/index.php because they are now stored in bp-themes/bp-members it calls the wrong header
The only way to do this, is with “deep integration.”
You will want to scour the bbpress.org forums for some more information about how to do this.
I’m going to assist Trent in including deep integration as part of his revised integration write-up that’s coming next. BuddyPress.org uses deep integration, but it’s still tricky and still has pro’s and con’s, particularly on a shared host and also with xmlrpc requests.
By the time that bbpress turns 1.0, most of the integration issues should be resolved, but you’re still loading ALL of WordPress + bbPress to make things go.
Akismet does work for WPMU, bbPress, etc… Akismet does not however work site-wide, only on a blog by blog basis, exactly like you’ve mentioned, even if your site isn’t making money.
Akismet is not a WPMU site-wide plugin, and to use it site wide currently requires the enterprise version.
What OS are you running locally, and what browser? I’ve installed the trunk versions of both WPMU and BuddyPress on two local installs so far, and haven’t experienced these issues.
When you say that directories.css wasn’t being loaded, was it 404’ing or was it just not mentioned at all?
I’m not on my laptop at the moment so I can’t see where directories.css is included normally.
When you updated, did you DELETE your old files and upload your new ones? Delete browser cache, site cookies, etc…
As i didnt like the orange colors in BuddyPress, i did a slightly little make over …
http://wordpress-blog.nl
And yes .. I did integrate bbPress in the current theme with a few minor steps 
I don’t exactly understand your idea here.
You are free to start any group you want. Then you can ask your friends to join that group if you’d like.
Are you saying that Xing can ask non-registered email addresses to register, and when they do they are automatically added to the group you create?
Say you create a group called “We love mustard” and I have friends outside of BuddyPress that also love Mustard, that I could request their presence in the group via an email address, and when they register they are auto-joined in the “We love mustard” group?
Not necessary to open a second topic.
You can add your link to this post if you’d like.
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=185
We appreciate your contributions, but you’re going against the grain here.
Log in as a site admin, and head to the \”Plugins\” admin panel. You will need to activate each plugin (activate CORE first).
Thanks Jeff. The original instruction was kinda confusing.
“I’m keeping this topic open for now, but it’s on my watch list because it’s already breaking some rules. If it gets too rowdy in here I’m locking it up. “
What rules did i broke, just that i wrote down, that i edit and integrate bbpress into a buddypress theme ?
“(cause you’re not ok with the wp policy) “
There are many website’s out on the net who arent: “oke” with the WP policy (what ever that should be) …
I dont see the problem, and the only who makes a problem out of it, are you guys
Final post, I got eveything working using the above mentioned fix, it appears the loader.php stored in the CSS was not loading directories css so maybe andy could take a look at that. Also the header is in fact linked, but its the members header, which my members header is different than my Home theme header, could anyone tell me how I could include my header that is stored in themes/buddypress-home rather than the memebers one? thanks
I am also interested in this question. 
Given that i’m interested in that i’m buildin a plugin against spammers in bp,
BPDEV NoSpam for now in the trac of BPDEV Plugins so you can install it here : http://bp-dev.org/download
You may also want to post your request in this group’s wire: BuddyPress Job Board
