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I’ve got TMDHosting account and I can say that their support is second to none when helping me out.

I rate them high !!!!

I shall stop wasting my time on AWS EC2 from now on…..

There hasn’t been much progress made with this, I’m afraid. I ended up making a “fake” buddybar, loading the buddypress style sheets and (omitting the “My Account” menu) just having “<- Back to <buddypress>” links, and “fake” tabs (again, linking to the buddypress stylesheets) with hard coded tabs linking straight back to the buddypress pages (“Home”, “Groups”, “Members”, “Forums” etc..) Works… but every time you install a custom component, you’d have to add the tab manually.

Kenneth,

Make sure you are putting the MO language file in the right place — it goes in “{your-buddypress-install}/bp-languages”. Also make sure it’s named correctly with “buddypress-” and the WPLANG locale definition (like “fr_FR” for French).

Then make sure you have defined your language in “wp-config.php”.

You can see all the details at Translating WordPress.

That page explains:

Set WPLANG inside of wp-config.php to your chosen language. For example, if you wanted to use French, you would have:

define ('WPLANG', 'fr_FR');

We’re working in the dark here Michael. What is your installation config like? subdomain or subdirectory? Windows, Mac or Linux? Shared or dedicated hosting?

You have the latest mu 2.7.1 branch and the latest bp trunk installed correctly

You have deleted bp completely from /mu-plugins and installed it in /plugins/buddypress

You have your member theme in /wp-content/bp-themes

You have activated sitewide the buddypress plugin

Your wpmu install works perfectly. You can create new blogs and post to them.

You do not have *any* other plugins running at all.

After all the above is ‘yes’ you get a white screen when visting any url in bp or wpmu? You have to be getting errors. Make sure that your php.ini file is configured to report errors and you are looking where it’s reporting.

Is this the same host as the bp install that is working?

Here are the instructions from Burt to test your host/server setup for XML-RPC support.

Follow this link to download the XML-RPC test that Burt created: http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/xmlrpc-sayhello.zip

The test consists of two files. The first file is a bbPress plugin that you activate in the bbPress plugins area that acts as a XML-RPC server and responds to a simple “say hello” type call. The second file goes in the root of your MU setup.

This test bypasses all the “bbpress_live/discover_pingback_server_uri()” stuff that might be giving you problems. If this works then the issue is most likely in that area and could be a host/server problem.

To load the test, first install the “oci-bb-sayhello.php” file to your bbPress install root in a folder called “my-plugins” (create the folder if it doesn’t exist). Then log into bbPress and activate the plugin. Next, drop the “oci-bp-sayhello.php” file into the root of our MU install so that you can navigate to it easily. Then load “your-site/oci-bp-sayhello.php” in a browser and see what the output is.

There are several possible points of failure if the test fails to authenticate the BuddyPress user that is created for the connection between BuddyPress and bbPress.

1) The BuddyPress connection username/password isn’t the same as the username/password that exists in bbPress. That username/password is stored in “wp_site_meta”.

2) The bbPress user is not an administrator.

Hello,

Unfortunately, most hosting companies do not support wildcards due to some configuration settings that should be applied both in the DNS and Apache virtual host. Still, in a properly configured hosting enviropment this can be easily achieved and these requirements can be met without any additional charges.

You may review the following hosting provider which fully support wildcards and has a BuddyPress and WordPress MU hosting packages:

http://www.tmdhosting.com/buddypress-hosting.html

You may also check the following blog on the test platform of BuddyPress at:

http://tmdhosting.testbp.org/

A step by step tutorial on how to install BuddyPress on your hosting is available on:

http://www.tmdhosting.com/tutorials/buddypress/buddypress-tutorial.html

I hope this information will be useful due to the fact that it is not an advertisement — you are free to choose the best hosting provider for your needs. Good luck .

TMDHosting Team

I came here because I want such a theme but a stable core, or a one click mu/bbpress/bp install is my first choice. Go for it!

@Michael-

… I just updated to the latest trunk. Before I had 1303 installed…

What version of BuddyPress are you currently running? If it is 1303, that is not the latest trunk version. Try updating to the most recent trunk.

Also, did you add the one additional define line to WPMU’s wp-config.php file? If not, compare the 2.7.1 config file to your old one. This line is new:

define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);

Since you can see the admin screen when you remove BP, that should not be the issue. But I’m just trying to be thorough.

@Nicola-

I believe Hally was asking for the location of the wp-signup.php file.

@Hally-

Is that true? Or, are you asking where is wp-signup.php referenced within BuddyPress?

I m using akismet plugin without problem..

Hi Gordon

Good to see you’ve now got it to work.

I’m having the same problems you had – to the letter – with getting forums to work. Am using shared hosting in the UK. Forums are not being created on the bbpress side and I’m getting the “There was an error posting that topic.” message on Buddypress.

Has anyone got the link to the xml-rpc testing files?

Thanks!

That’s a fairly standard WP message. I always ignore it and never have any problems.

I’am currently working on a matching bbPress theme for BuddyPress … But, it only fit my (tweaked) theme for BuddyPress

The forum is up and running, but the theme is still in development

The color scheme i use can be seen over here:

http://wordpress-blog.nl

I’m already using Amazon S3 for uploaded images on buddypress site http://restaurace.net

Hi, I’d like to know if the idea modemlooper raise to have “blog” as one option in the group side bar has materialized? The community blog plugin is great, and it would be nice to see that fully integrated with the group concept in Buddypress.

Ehy Jeff look here wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/register.php

if you’ve a customized theme copy register.php and activation.php from /themes/buddypress-home to your theme

put bp plugins in /plugins/buddypress