[gogoplata]

The hosts file can be edited through Plesk. You must be logged in as root then go to Virtuozzo->File Manager then navigate to /etc/hosts and you can edit it from there. That’s how I did it and can confirm it works, but make sure your changes stick. I modified it once and the server changed it slightly after saving which still prevented the forums from working but I re-edited as outlined above and it fixed my forum issues. Thanks!

[nicolagreco]

dont confuse forums..

here we’re according for invitation module..

and if someone is interested to hire me, i will develope this plugin

ps: now i will watch for that, thanks

[gogoplata]

Thank you Trent! I’ve been working on getting the forums working since they were first released and have FINALLY got them working thanks to your post and this thread. Looking back I think I had two problems:

1. I had been installing the plugin in bb-plugins, not my-plugins. I had seen my-plugins mentioned a few places but thought maybe it was replaced by bb-plugins in 1.0 and never really looked into it. I still installed and activated the plugin successfully through bb-plugins so I’m not sure if this was or wasn’t the problem but in any case thanks for pointing this out.

2. I previously modified the etc/hosts file mentioned in the other thread but it must not have saved correctly on the first try. I re-edited it to what burtadsit recommended and now we’re working.

Anyways, thanks again!

[gpo1]

sorry to jump in..maybe most of us are interested in media plugin for user profiles! if you adapt (all in one) plugin for user profiles.take a look at forum on media. we could hire you..

[Trent Adams]

Well, you can look at this post for a quick hack to only allow members to see anything on member profiles, groups, etc. That post has a hack that applies to the /wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member/ theme. The buddypress-home theme in /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/ doesn’t get the hack

You could apply it to buddypress-home theme in certain places if you don’t even want them to be able to search the blogs, groups, members, etc. but that would be a little harder to follow.

Then, on private blogs, I just use more privacy options so that private and no search engine blogs don’t show in any listings around the site. You can hack the code to actually list them in buddypress if you want, but default pattern is to not show them.

So basically, I would set the privacy for all blogs you don’t want showing and leave the main blog open. It is done with that plugin on a blog by blog basis.

Once Andy puts more of this into the core, it will be much easier, but for now we have to “hack” around a bit

Trent

[Wardee]

That’s really helpful, Trent. I ran into that bug (your #7) many times and think that is what caused most of my trouble getting the group forums to work.

[Trent Adams]

You might get a little more mileage for this one if you post over in the bbPress forums at https://bbpress.org/forums/ with more eyes for errors

[jimgroom]

burtadsit,

I’m running on a shared host and I can report the same issue. Seems like the actual BuddyPress forums on the testbp.org site are appending a unique forum id, which is not happening for me, most probably because forum posts aren’t posting. A vicious cycle

[Burt Adsit]

Are you running on a shared host or a dv?

[neuromancer2701]

This seems pretty easy.

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=5930

[zenseeker]

Check these topics. Not for a solution, but to know that a lot of others are having the same problem and trying to find a solution:

Group forums working yet not working

Group Forums will never work on some hosting providers

I’m getting the same error too.

[nicolagreco]

i think that you’ve to ask in wordpress-mu forum, not here..

[dfred]

I got the same problem here. I am trying to find a solution.

[Burt Adsit]

Ya, my prob wasn’t media temple. It was me. I didn’t realize that /etc/hosts was consulted first when looking up an ip address. Thought it all went thru a name server. So it was finding a generic 127.0.0.1 address for my domain. First, and using it of course. Just stupidity on my part.

[rwallen]

Just chiming in to say that so far I haven’t experienced any issues with mediatemples shared hosting. xmlrpc is working swell too with the iphone app.

[Burt Adsit]

I think he’s talking about *how* domain names get resolved on a shared hosting provider. I ran into problems with domain resolution on my DV. In my case it was just a matter of changing the /etc/hosts file. Since I don’t know what I’m doing in root, it took days to figure out what I needed to change to get xmlrpc working.

I think he’s saying that domain resolution on a shared host can be difficult to control by the user. Me or you as the user on a shared host. Simply because I have a domain hooked up to an ip address doesn’t mean that I have control over *how* that ip address is determined.

1. Lookup ip here in the internal net of the shared provider

2. Lookup ip there in the provider’s name servers

(Return the first ip that I find above)

I think what he’s saying is that the above process will not return the correct ip for the low level stuff that is happening in xmlrpc.

I’m just kinda hazy at the moment as to why the internal ip address is not valid for xmlrpc.

[mgkimsal]

I don’t get it. What’s the problem? The forum stuff is still using the full domain name, so any POSTs and such will still go to the right domain, regardless of whether the IP is 192.168.0.1, 127.0.0.1 or 69.93.219.170. I’ve got the forums working on my server just fine, and it doesn’t resolve the internal requests any different than external.

[Gilbert Cattoire]

Bonjour à tous, la traduction française est bientôt mise à jour pour le nouveau fichier .po disponible dans le dernier trunk en date.

Mise à disposition prévue: vendredi 19 décembre, dans la mesure où le fichier aura été testé avant. Simple question de disponibilité personnelle. Merci pour votre patience.

@bebopcool,@mandriam: j’utilise pour l’instant WMPU 2.6.5, ce qui n’a aucune incidence sur la traduction française de BuddyPress. Par principe je préfère tester sur l’avant dernière version d’un logiciel(généralement plus stable), quand la nouvelle version vient juste de sortir. La 2.7 pose en effet quelques petits soucis, si j’en crois les premiers à l’avoir testée ( https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=10163&page=2 ).

J’attendrai pour ma part la 2.7.1

[Burt Adsit]

I see part of the problem now. No avatars for your groups after upload of group avatar. It’s beginning to make sense. I wasn’t using custom avatars for groups. Til now. Never tried it.

It’s gonna take me a few to look at the problem but I was able to reproduce it on this end. I’ll take a look. I’m helping another user get forums up and running right now.

[mfgmk]

Running into the same problem with r796 (detailed everything here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=388). Tested on IE7, FF2 and FF3 with a cleared cache — my “Send To” label still has (Use username – autocomplete coming soon) next to it, so that’d be my first guess that auto-complete isn’t quite up to snuff yet on my BP installation. Also just wanted to point out again that messaging does work if This is a notice to all users. is checked off — hopefully, that might give a clue as to why it’s not working. Otherwise, I’d have to second everything gogoplata noted (minus the forums stuff); I’m on MT’s DV, too.

[Mike Pratt]

@burtadsit Great thread you pointed us to. I came away with the feeling that we can all achieve this objective without a ton of coding but I feel like we should flush out the concept 1st. Conceptually, I am trying to achieve what @feconroses is ….a community with a main central blog that they can post more in-depth pieces than you might find on a forum and then a bunch of groups centered on topics. In a perfect world, I could either give each group a “blog” to post things on or somehow associate tagged main blog posts to a particular group (thru categories maybe?) Bottom line is this: our community is looking for engagement. Not the ability to run their own blog inside a community. BP is clearly well suited but just needs a few tweaks to get there.

Oh, working on the bowling league plugin

[gnattybumpo]

problem solved. see https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=428&replies=3#post-1845

[gogoplata]

Nah, I’m on a DV as well. I’ll probably just contact support and see if I can make any progress that way, though I need to try to pinpoint where it’s going wrong as all I know right now is the forums don’t work and that’s about it.

[Burt Adsit]

@gogoplata We may have the same host but are you on the Grid Server? Isn’t that shared? Talk to mt and explain the exact problem.

OK. About the debugging. Gotta go pull up those files again and figure out what I did. I pulled the debug stuff out of some of them. Lemme go find that stuff and I’ll brb.

OK. In bp forums code it winds up calling:

discover_pingback_server_uri($url, $deprecated = 2048) which is in /wp-includes/comment.php

In that function it calls:

wp_remote_get( $url, array( ‘timeout’ => 10, ‘httpversion’ => ‘1.1’ ) );

Which is a new mu 2.7 thing and it lives in: /wp-includes/http.php

That call finally resolves down to something low level in the WP_Http class which is the function:

function request( $url, $args = array() )

at line 261 is the selected transport mechanism obj making another low level call.

This is the end of that request() function where I have some debug code.

$response = array( ‘headers’ => array(), ‘body’ => ”, ‘response’ => array(‘code’, ‘message’) );

foreach( (array) $transports as $transport ) {

$response = $transport->request($url, $r);

if( !is_wp_error($response) )

//global $burt; if($burt) {echo ‘TRANS:’; var_dump($response); die();}

return $response;

}

return $response;

}

This call is evidently used alot so I have that global there because I only want to trigger var_dump() when I’m going out looking for a pingback url which is what going in to the groups area does with the forums component turned on.

(pausing for breath…)

Up in comment.php I have a toggle for the $burt var. (I love that var). Line number 1249/1250 is this:

//global $burt; $burt=true;

$response = wp_remote_get( $url, array( ‘timeout’ => 10, ‘httpversion’ => ‘1.1’ ) );

Insert your fav var name there and in http.php and it only triggers when discover ping back whatever the hell it is, is called.

Remember you asked.

[Burt Adsit]

@stix1972 again. I have no idea how shared hosting works. I don’t know that you *can* modify the /etc/hosts file at all. Maybe they won’t let you. I dunno. I get to play with whatever I want on my server because I got the whole thing to myself. Well, virtually to myself.

Anybody else running on a shared host and got forums up?