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Andy I’ve already done this with realfam. See: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1018

This is just a new thread for the same situation.

I too am currently evaluating BuddyPress, for use in a University (so in 5 years we’ll be looking @ roughly 30.000 blogs). My experience so far is that BP needs a lot of queries to load the page.

Has anyone got any experience on finetuning linux, apache php and mysql for a site like this (memory, caching, network etc)? Needless to say i’ll be running a dedicated machine for this site (and got root access).

I’d love some configuration recommendations, specifically on proxy/caching strategies, backup and clustering.

I will go out on a limb to say that what looks like a bug at first is often times just normal user error.

I consider myself a seasoned PHP/SQL/Linux/WordPress/bbPress veteran, and to be honest it took me installing and reinstalling MU/BuddyPress 4 times before I was able to follow the instructions correctly. Each time I would have sworn on my undead mothers grave that I did everything right, but alas…

So a tip to you all, if it isn’t working, it just might be because of something you don’t know you didn’t do…

I am experiencing the same issue, and it seems like it is less about which plug in, and more about how many.

I’ve gone through and added/removed all of the buddy press components, and as soon as I have more than about 5 of them, I get 500 errors no matter what page it tries to load.

The fix for me was to make a file named php.ini, and within that file put:

memory=20MB

…and upload it to the wp-admin folder.

Basically 1and1’s PHP limit is probably set to like 8mb or 16mb, and BuddyPress is just too big for those britches. Of course, you can increase your memory size to whatever makes it work for you, but 20MB should be plenty.

I also put:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

…in my .htaccess file at the root directory to make sure 1and1 knew to give it php5 and not the 4 that it tries to give by default. Silly 1and1…

http://www.sportsblognet.com. Tell anyone that likes sports to check it out. Finally up and running after about a month. We may be looking for someone that can code the member theme to match our overall site theme so please respond to this if you are interested.

Go into the Dashboard logged in as the “WPMU admin” into -> Site-Admin => Themes and then disable the theme from there. You can always go to Site-Admin -> Blogs and edit your main blog to enable the them only for the main blog.

Trent

several posts with lots of things to try here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=892

did you search the forums?

The topic https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=843 has been closed and i feel sorry for it, because with my later installation wp MU 2.7 + BP béta 2, i’m still having this error msg :

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/np5397/domains/blogi.ee/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-signup.php on line 104

when creating a new blog

that cause several issues :

– can’t edit the profiles, create a group

– blogs are created but aren’t showing in the recent activity, neither in the blogs tabs or in his owner’s profile

– can’t send a message, invite somebody to be friend, etc

it seems that i have no x-profile tables in my db like burtadsit asks

(tableprefix_)bp_xprofile_groups

(tableprefix_)bp_xprofile_fields

(tableprefix_)bp_xprofile_data

here is the list of the tables in my db ; can’t see it

wp_1_comments,

wp_1_links,

wp_1_options,

wp_1_postmeta,

wp_1_posts,

wp_1_term_relationships,

wp_1_term_taxonomy,

wp_1_terms,

wp_2_comments,

wp_2_links,

wp_2_options,

wp_2_postmeta,

wp_2_posts,

wp_2_term_relationships,

wp_2_term_taxonomy,

wp_2_terms,

wp_3_comments,

wp_3_links,

wp_3_options,

wp_3_postmeta,

wp_3_posts,

wp_3_term_relationships,

wp_3_term_taxonomy,

wp_3_terms,

wp_4_comments,

wp_4_links,

wp_4_options,

wp_4_postmeta,

wp_4_posts,

wp_4_term_relationships,

wp_4_term_taxonomy,

wp_4_terms,

wp_blog_versions,

wp_blogs,

wp_registration_log,

wp_signups,

wp_site,

wp_sitecategories,

wp_sitemeta,

wp_usermeta,

wp_users

please how can i create manually those tables in my sqlDB ?

thanks for any advice

I have been folowing development since BP was just Andy. I am in the midst of rebuilding our radio network site on BuddyPress. I’m about half way through the process. It’s coming along.

The Head On Radio Network

Sam

You need a SVN client to do svn co https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk. Then in future you can run svn update to update to the latest “trunk” copy. It’s a bit hard to go further into specifics as I don’t know what Operating System you use, but have a google around if you get stuck.`

Hi.

What error do you get when you try and create the groups?

There’s a sticky that details the BBPress integration (https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471).

You configure how you want new blogs to be created in the admin tool of WPMU (IIRC).

You could try and create a hidden blog and change the theme for just that to see if you can manage the widgets. Alternatively post a link to the theme you’re using and I’ll give it a spin on my setup.

As for the avatars… Do you have the “blog.dir” folder in your “wp-content” folder?

Looking at the path you’re posting above (/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-home/index.php) it seems as if you’ve selected the BuddyPress home theme as the default theme for your member pages and not the actual member theme.

I’m not sure how you’d be able to do that though.

What are the contents in your “member-themes” folder?

I’m running IE (8 even) and that’s not the problem with Laura’s site (nor have I’ve seen it on my own setup).

The registration steps works fine, it’s the end result that is the problem.

Buddypress is not unusable software. I suggest being a bit more polite if you come looking for help, especially to the official Buddypress forums.

It’s because you’re trying to shoehorn a PHP script into your theme. Either one of the PHP variables you use in the snippet in bold is used elsewhere by Buddypress – thus getting weird conflicts – or it’s to do with one of your mysql_ function calls, possibly mysql_select_db().

blogs.dir and some other folders will probably need to be chown’d to the user and group that runs the webserver. Apache2 by default (I think) uses the nobody user account, so I’m assuming that’s what your host uses.

Whilst 777 will let everything access it, from a security perspective, you should really go for 755 permissions and check that the owner/group of the files is the same as that of the webserver.

BTW if you’d have tested uploading an avatar on a plain WordPress MU install, you’d have had exactly the same problem. This isn’t buddypress.

sgrunt: if there is a suspected problem with IE, you should detail a report at https://trac.buddypress.org/ so people can check and confirm and fix it.

i think you should modify both the buddypress home and the member theme: the base.css file or the custom.css file for both themes. Change the body, the left, right, center column width, and the narrow and wide column.