[seppolaatle112]

Tadziz, In your Buddypress-folder you should find a folder called bp-languages. There you’ll find BP’s languagefile. Remeber that your Buddypress-installation will use the same language as your installation of Wpmu does.

Just a tip,: You can find more information about translating buddypress if you search the forums.

[takuya]

Search this forum again, there’s one plugin so users can define wich words to be hyperlinked. And another one where Burt suggested bp-custom hack.

[takuya]

Are you trying to change the bp slugs? (as described in documents)

Or are you trying to change slugs of wpmu? If this is the case, you shouldn’t post your question here. But post your question on wpmu forum.

[Burt Adsit]

The inability to accept/reject membership requests and the “Are you sure you want to do this?” error message are related to wp security issues. wpmu 2.7.1 uses things called ‘nonces’ that ensure that the user who got the form actually submitted it back.

I don’t know what member theme you are using but if you are trying to use an older version of a member theme with wpmu 2.7.1 and bp 1.0 it will fail like that if it wasn’t written to pay attention to ‘nonces’.

[Burt Adsit]

There is a post in this thread about your issue : https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2190

[Burt Adsit]

Try going though this topic and see if anything fits your situation: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471

That error message could mean many things. It’s just a ‘something didn’t work right’ message that doesn’t tell us anything.

[Burt Adsit]

Well they won’t show if the group isn’t public. They aren’t showing on public groups?

[mgrunk1]

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1096

This post after some digging has all the sql code to define all the tables – it worked and now I can proceed. Still have no idea why there’s a problem – I had to put code in the wp-config because it infinited looped upon admin login. I was not able to select subdirectories as an install option – only subdomains. And, then the buddypress table issue. I assume it’s some kind of funked, esoteric issues w/ my hosting company (shared) but I haven’t had a problem w/ any zen-cart, zoomla or wp installs.

[tadziz]

when i add this line to bb-config.php i get error:

There was an error posting that topic.

hmm ,any suggestions ?

[2731640]

… if anyone is interested in…

I re-installed everything and forums are now working

BUT still have problems with a couple of issues…

1.) Can’t leave a group (still the same problem)

2.) Can’t invite friends to the groups

Haven’t tested the problem #4 (I can’t reject or accept membership requests by clicking the link in the notice email. If I click the link I get a white page and text “Are you sure you want to do this?” (WordPress failure notice) but no links.”

[dbascent94]

Burt,

First off, thank you for taking the time to help out. It is greatly appreciated.

Forum post made through the BP Groups do not show up either.

[Burt Adsit]

Forum posts done directly in bbpress do not show in activity.

[fi3ryfalc0nZ]

Hey, it works now! Thanks Daniel. Sorry, I have another question. How do you delete a topic in Buddypress Group Forum. I can’t find the Delete button anywhere.

[Jeff Sayre]

Okay, we need more information. Please answer these questions:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2674

[dbascent94]

Thanks Burt. I will try that fix now.

…..It worked great. Forum posta re still not showing up on the site wide activity widget though.

[Burt Adsit]

There seems to be a new configuration option for the group forums:

define ( ‘BP_FORUMS_PARENT_FORUM_ID’, 1 );

What this allows is all group forums, when created, to be children of a specific forum. It defaults to forum id 1 in bbpress. That would be the first one created during install. You can change this behavior by defining another forum id to be the parent forum or turn off this completely in bp-custom.php like this:

define ( ‘BP_FORUMS_PARENT_FORUM_ID’, 0 );

Zero for ‘do not do that stuff’ or some other existing forum id you want to be the parent. You’ll have to go into the back end of bbpress to rearrange the forums that have been already created. Just set their Forum Parent to be -None-.

[Burt Adsit]

hmmm. Yep, that’s what is happening. Not sure why but I’ll take a look.

[Burt Adsit]

I think you are saying that your member’s forum posts do not have the author name on them.

From /buddypress/bp-forums/installation-readme.txt

11. Enable user switching in bbPress by copying the following line of code into your bbPress bb-config.php file:

$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;

Put the above line into your bb-config.file. It doesn’t matter where.

[Marcin Biegun]

http://wspinacze.pl/forum/ – I followed all your instruction and wordpress and buddypress are loaded (there is user avatar visible for logged in user) but there is no admin bar. any suggestions?

[Rich Spott]

You’ve just got to tear out *everything*. All this domain mapping and other things. Get down to a bare install of bp 1.0 using the default themes and wpmu 2.7.1.

I did that, took out all plugins except for buddypress 1.0, and changed the themes to the default buddypress theme, and default buddypress member theme, and used a vanilla .htaccess for wpmu 2.7.1.

Still got an internal redirect when Googlebot-Images came through and looks for something that is not there. I even recreated the error and was able to see the 500 error.

Did you remove your previous bp install from /mu-plugins? Why is it trying to get to an avatar image from there? I suspect it’s all your *other* addons in some combination with the upgrade to 2.7.1 from 1.x and the addition of bp into the mix that is causing your problems

Yes, I removed buddypress RC-1 from mu-plugins before proceeding with installing BP 1.0. I dont know why it is grabbing files that dont exist. But that’s not really why i’m worried about it, it’s more that if any sites links to tries to get a file that is not currently on the site, it creates a 500 error.

I didn’t upgrade from WPMU 1.x to 2.7.1, I went from 2.7 to 2.7.1, and 2.6.5 before that and basically following each and every update that there has been since 1.3.3 last april. Maybe it was confusing in the way I wrote it.

Take things back to a known, working state. Start with bare 1.x. Then upgrade to wpmu 2.7.1 incrementally. From everything I hear on the wpmu forums this is the recommended procedure. Jumping from 1.x to the latest version in one step isn’t recommended.

I went from WPMU 2.7 to 2.7.1, and it was working fine in 2.7 with BP RC-1

But I did have everything stripped out for a matter of 10 hours and i still got the same errors. I do know that some plugins leave tables in the database, should i drop those tables associated with a plugin and see if that works? Because even if I have a clean install of WPMU 2.7.1, then BP 1.0, i still have a database with all of the remnants of the old stuff.

[Burt Adsit]

You’ve just got to tear out *everything*. All this domain mapping and other things. Get down to a bare install of bp 1.0 using the default themes and wpmu 2.7.1.

Did you remove your previous bp install from /mu-plugins? Why is it trying to get to an avatar image from there? I suspect it’s all your *other* addons in some combination with the upgrade to 2.7.1 from 1.x and the addition of bp into the mix that is causing your problems.

Take things back to a known, working state. Start with bare 1.x. Then upgrade to wpmu 2.7.1 incrementally. From everything I hear on the wpmu forums this is the recommended procedure. Jumping from 1.x to the latest version in one step isn’t recommended.

When wpmu 2.7.1 is operating correctly without any fancy domain mapping installed. Then install bp 1.0 and get that working. Gradually add in your other plugins and test before moving to the next one. That procedure, by itself, may solve your problems.

The upgrade and installation of new features procedure, that you have been practicing currently, has driven your site insane. You are trying to track down individual symptoms of a completely unknown state of affairs. You’ll just wind up chasing symptoms instead of curing what’s wrong.

[Rich Spott]

The specific error that shows in the error log is

[Fri May 22 15:44:40 2009] [error] [client xx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace., referer: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2840

I just clicked the link from an earlier post and the 500 error happened.

xx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [22/May/2009:15:44:40 -0700] "GET /wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/images/mystery-man.jpg HTTP/1.1" 500 612 "https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2840" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) FirePHP/0.3"

the latter is from my access log.

My permissions are set correctly, that’s usually the first thing i check.

now onto a couple more of your questions:

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?

Yes, I have searched WPMU forums, and even posted on there my problem, but no one reponded. I was pretty sure that it was related more towards WPMU. But these errors only started happening a few weeks ago, after I upgraded to WPMU 2.7.1 and BP 1.0

Are you using some special permalink structure? That should not be causing the lack of 404’s but every bit of info helps.

No, everything I was using was either in the htaccess.dist and the wp-super-cache (which has since been taken out until i find the cause). The permalink structure that I use on http://sportsblognet.com is the “year/month/day/name” option, which is one of the standard ones.

Did you carefully follow the readme.txt file that comes with WPMU?

I just re-read it to be sure, yes, yes I did follow it.

Is this a new WPMU 2.7.1 install, or did you upgrade from an older version?

This is an upgrade from WPMU 2.7, it was first created with WPMU 1.3.3 over a year ago. We’ve been following buddypress since October of 2008 and have been using it since 12/08, when the first beta came out. I’ve upgraded pretty much everytime without problem. And these Internal Redirects only started after the upgrade to WPMU 2.7.1 and BP 1.0 at the beginning of May.

[jfcarter]

Thanks, Jeff! I think it is the positioning and the CSS (which may be the same thing). The rest of the buddybar menu items aren’t showing. I’ve added the login form to the buddybar, so at least that is showing.

[Jeff Sayre]

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

[Jeff Sayre]

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?