We’ve been having a related discussion in this thread. Are you using BlueHost as well? It does not really matter. The lessons in the link are the same.
The requested URL /community/members was not found on this server.
Do you have the default member theme (bpmember) installed in /wp-content/bp-themes/?
Group, Members, Blogs, Registration, does not work.
I assume registration is working fine now because I just visited your site and you have a newly registered member–a test account, I assume. The time on your OP clearly indicates that you started this thread before you registered that new account.
Finally, please go through this list of questions.
The requested URL /community/members was not found on this server.
Back-end work well, but Group, Members, Blogs, Registration, does not work.
I install from Simple Script. Worldpress MU work well without Buddypress. SO I think the problem is Buddypress.
Any idea anyone.
Thank you in advance.
This ia the site: http://www.ayitinou.com/community
We do not have anymore details than you have read. Perhaps Andy will shed some light after he has recuperated from WordCamp SF.
In addition to that news, there was mention that WP.com will offer BuddyPress as well. So, as far as what this means for BuddyPress, your guess is as good as mine. Will BuddyPress be included as a simple “switch” to turn on? How about bbPress?
When will all this happen? The writer of that post speculates around WPv2.9. Who knows. Since this is such a major shift, to me it seems more like a version 3.0 event. But, this is also pure speculation.
I was just reading this post, and was wondering if anyone else had heard about this – supposedly the two will become one by around version 2.9.
What does this mean for BuddyPress?
I’m also on BlueHost and installing manually is as easy as installing with simplescripts. That said, I needed to install and reinstall fifty-million (ok, maybe eight) times to get things working right with forum integration, etc. What worked was breaking it down slowly slowly slowly. First WPMU, then buddypress and finally using these instructions for integrating bbpress:
http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/04/30/integrating-buddypress-10-wpmu-and-bbpress/
The reason I had to reinstall so many times is I had trouble with the domains/subdirectories and finally had to change it out manually:
http://welcome.totheinter.net/2009/05/06/changing-wordpress-mu-from-subdomains-to-subdirectories/
It’s still buggy — I had some problems when I had to change out domains to get my site showing up in the right place — but I have hope it’s at least mostly working.
http://www.openadoptionsupport.com
Peterverkooijen-
It seems like your not getting any traction with this issue. I understand your need to have a plugin that restricts group access to only those members within a group.
As I mentioned in the thread you referenced above, we are working on an overall privacy component for BuddyPress. What you are seeking will be one of the features of this component.
Perhaps someone will point out an existing plugin that I’m not aware of, or go and create it for you! But, if that does not happen, you at least know that this functionality is in the works.
I have one question
Here are the three answers to your one question!
Is it the case that anyone can register on the community and create a blog
You can control blog registration in WPMU’s backend. Log into the admin panel as site administrator and visit “Site Admin > Options > Allow new registrations”. There are a few settings which give you some basic control.
Can the community admin restrict who has the privilege to do that
If the community admin is the overall site admin, then see the first answer.
is it possible to make membership by invitation only?
http://bp-dev.org/plugins/wpinvites/
Also of potential interest: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1328
Arturo-
This thread should help you with the buddybar issue: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2572#post-14039
Oh, that’s no good. Can’t we make a change to that? I know I’m trying to use Buddypress for a purpose it wasn’t necessarily designed to fulfill (a directory) … if random is a flavor, then can’t we have “non-random” (i.e., alphabetical?) as a flavor, too?
running it on http://callcenterblogs.net
thank you for developing this. really!
any news about all this ?
This is the only thing missing for me to use Buddypress 
Hi all,
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking about creating a couple of communities; so you can imagine the pleasure of coming to learn about BuddyPress.
I have one question, though, which I’ve not been able to find anywhere else…
Is it the case that anyone can register on the community and create a blog just like that? Can the community admin restrict who has the privilege to do that (as well as other things)? Also, is it possible to make membership by invitation only?
Thanks in advance.
Mratanas-
Unless a member has direct experience with a one-button installer, you will most likely not get much help here on how to use SimpleScripts on BlueHost.
But, you really should not be installing complex software platforms like WPMU by using third-party installers. You should manually install WPMU paying careful, close attention to the readme.txt file that comes with it.
You need to make sure that WPMU is working perfectly before you install any plugins. This includes BuddyPress. If you continue to have issues, you should visit the WPMU forums and see how others have solved their problems installing Mu on BlueHost. Once WPMU is working perfectly, install BuddyPress. If you then have issues, come back here and we’ll see what we can do.
To help us better help you, if you do come back with a BuddyPress-specific issue, please follow these instructions.
What is currently the best way to restrict access to the members and groups sections to members-only?
There is some code in this thread that works, but it’s a bit of a messy hack – not sure which piece of code in that thread is the final working version – and the solution does not include a working redirect or Ajax message.
Would it be possible to extend this plugin to work for the members and groups sections in BP?
I have this question and I think there are many users have the same…
how one can use the theme of buddypress (home / members) with bbpress?
I intend to have the buddybar, search/login bar, logo and menu, etc.. etc, in short, just as it is here on bp.org.
thanks to Andy or any other mod/member reply to this very useful question.
Peterverkooijen-
This issue is not resolved imho.
Your issue is not what this thread is about. The issue of the OP was resolved and so he marked it as such.
Posting a new request in a one-month old thread marked resolved will not get much attention. See here for more details: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2543
But, to provide some insight into your question, a couple of us are currently working on a full-featured privacy (authorization) component for BuddyPress. It is a ways off from being made available.
As a sad update, I reinstalled BuddyPress using SimplyScripts and I now am getting 404 errors for every link on the homepage. Miraculously the home page works, but nothing else does.
I am using WPMU 2.7.1 and MySQL client version 5.0.75.
http://www.unityoflight.com
Is where this install is. I truly must be missing something. Any thoughts?
Hi I found that line which is the one for the button….:
<input type=”submit” name=”search-submit” id=”search-submit” value=”‘ . __( ‘Search’, ‘buddypress’ ) . ‘” />
‘ . wp_nonce_field( ‘bp_search_form’ ) . ‘
who knows how the line is when I want put in the buttonimage: searchbutton.gif ? So that it works with the look of that created button ?
THX in ADV Tony
Hi. Basics: What version of WPMU and BuddyPress are you using?
Also: What version of MySQL is your server running please? Also, I have heard BlueHost supports only subdirectory installs as it doesn’t support wildcard subdomains, so can you confirm you’re trying the subdirectory install?
If that last question makes no sense, try removing your WPMU / BP install and databases and try reuploading/reinstalling manually, not using SimpleScripts. A search on this forum has revelead at least one person saying that their problems on BlueHost went away after they did a manual install.
I just reinstalled BuddyPress. Someone mentioned I needed to remove the “www” from the installation, so I am trying this again.
Hi All,
I recently set up BuddyPress through SimpleScripts on BlueHost. Everything seemed to be working fine until I created a Subscriber account for myself and tried creating a user blog (as opposed to the main dashboard blog). The subscriber account is the admin for the user blog I created called “michael”.
To troubleshoot, I disabled all of the plugins except BuddyPress, changed between the FaceBuddy theme and the default theme, changed the account from subscriber to contributor etc, and looked over every forum and set of documentation I could think of.
When I chatted with the BlueHost support, they seemed to think it was a configuration in BuddyPress and not a permission or database problem, but I still haven’t been able to figure out what the problem is.
Here is what the page looks like to every user that creates a blog…
http://www.unityoflight.com/michael
I am assuming the user is supposed to see the dashboard, but it isn’t loading up correctly.
Has anyone seen this before or have any insight into what might be happening?
Thanks!
— Michael
You are not doing anything wrong. Stop trying to do it right. 
Groups only comes in these flavors: active, newest, popular, random
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-site-groups-loop/
I’m using that plugin as well and I’ve asked that same question here on the forum with no success. However, whether you’re using that sidebar plugin or not, I’m still having trouble getting a clear answer on how to replace WP code linking to the author in your custom theme to the profile page in Buddypress.
In other words, how do I change <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> from my custom home theme to <‘author’s buddypress profile link’> in order to reach that author’s profile page?
Thx
The default sort order for directories is ‘active’. It dispays the most recently active first in the directory. You can change that by using a different sort order in your theme. See the docs for the loops here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/
In the default theme, the loop for members is controlled by /bpmember/directories/members/members-loop.php in the function:
bp_has_site_members( ‘type=active&per_page=10’ )
Changing type=active to type=alphabetical should get you there.
