BuddyPress.org

Okay, why don’t both of you go through this list to see if there are other commonalities:

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

Please post your response to those questions here.

Hi Jeff, I did not notice that this was marked as resolved. I still don’t know how to create a buddypress install with a cohesive theme for members. I’ve been checking every week or so to see if someone may have answered my questions about what it is I’d need to hard code. I’ll check to see which theme I modified and I’ll see if that makes a difference. I’m still looking to distill a procedure out of this that I can follow and share with others. Best, Dainis

Thank you very much for responding. I really appreciate it.

This should really be in the readme, forums are a huge part of social networking, and I will be developing a tightly integrated BuddyPress and bbPress application over the next few months. I’m sure you will see a lot of questions from me, and I look forward to helping out along the way.

Well I just stuck this in to be absolutely sure:

/* Array Test */

echo is_array($bp_meta) ? 'Array' : 'not an Array';

I placed this just after $bp_meta is set and the test does come back indicating it’s an array so that is all that really matters.

I then placed this after the offending $bp_blog_signup_meta line:

print_r($bp_blog_signup_meta);

It looked fine. Data from both arrays were being properly merged.

So, I don’t think from my cursory investigation that this is the PHP5 array_merge() issue.

@Josswinn

A few questions:

1. Does this occur in all browsers or just some?
2. Do you have cookies disabled?
3. Which version of PHP are you running?
4. Which version of Apache?
5. Which version of WPMU?
6. Which version of BP?
7. Are there any other errors in your log files?

Well, we have insufficient information about your setup. Please answer these questions.

this post might help you answer some of your questions… https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3204

@Sean

Are you still having this issue? Everything looks fine when I visit the link you’ve provided.

If this issue is resolved, please set the light on top to green. If not, please answer these questions: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2674

Home themes need to be located in:

/wp-content/themes/

Member themes need to be located in:

/wp-content/bp-themes/

Read this for more info: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypress/

We need to understand your server and software environment. Please answer these questions: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2674

Thank you for providing good documentation about your issue!

I just did a quick read through of your issue and will think about this some more, but a few quick questions come to mind to get this dialogue started:

1. Are you using custom themes? If so, what hapens when you switch to the default BP themes?
2. Have you made any alterations to your .htaccess file?
3. Do you have any other plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, have you tried deactivating all of them except the BuddyPress plugin?
4. Although this may not be useful, have you checked your server’s error logs?

hi airblastor, i can reply about facebuddy.

you must activate the home theme in order to view it.

for the member theme…go in the admin panel:buddypress and be sure to select it from the menu.

be sure you’ve downloaded the facebuddy version that suits your BP release

Ross:

Based on this response to the list of questions,

Was WPMU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress? No

and the fact that you have installed so many plugins, I’m going to suggest that you go over to the WPMU forums and ask for assistance there. It appears that you are looking at a WPMU problem and not a BuddyPress-specific issue.

bigfunblogs-

Please provide more information by answering these questions.

Marked as resolved.

mikem1986, you will want to modify the header.php in your bbPress themes directory to get rid of the logo, and the header.php file in your wp-content/themes/bphome directory if you are using the included BuddyPress Home Theme.

have you download the 1.0 version or 0.9.0.5? for BP is required only the 1.0 version.

Okay, several more questions?

Did you manually install BuddyPress or use WPMU’s plugin browser to install BP?

Did you restart the web server after making changes to the rewrite rules in the configuration file?

In your OP, you state that you have moved the bphome theme into /wp-content/themes/. Did you also move bpmember into /wp-content/bp-themes/?

Also, look near the bottom of this installing WPMU codex article for suggestions on Lighty rewrite rules: https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WPMU

Well, we really don’t have enough information about your environment to specifically offer assistance. Here are a few questions to get this started:

1. Which version of Lighty are you running?
2. Which version of WPMU are you running?
3. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install?
4. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory
5. Was WPMU functioning properly before installing BuddyPress?
6. What permalink structure do you have setup in WPMU?
7. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running?
8. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.

Also, how much experience do you have with installing and configuring Lighty? I ask this because I’m guessing that your issue is more than likely a server configuration issue having to do with permalink rewriting.

Was WPMU functioning properly before you tried installing and activating BuddyPress? In other words, could you create posts? Did they show up on the default WPMU theme? Could you navigate to them when clicking on their link? Did you receive any errors? You should not attempt to install BuddyPress until your WPMU setup is functioning perfectly.

People successfully run WPMU on LightTPD and Nginx web serving platforms. These two platforms do not support, do not use, .htaccess files. They cannot use .htaccess files. But, they can be configured to properly rewrite permalinks. The .htaccess file is not essential, not required, for WPMU to run properly. What is required is a facility to rewrite permalinks.

21cdb-

Do you have two different accounts on bp.org?

As far as the redirect loop question, it could be caused by many things. So, a few questions:

1. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install?
2. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
3. You were having install issues beforehand. When you finally got this to work, could there have been old, incomplete install data leftover in your DB? Or, did you install into a fresh, new DB?
4. What errors are you seeing in your server’s log files?

I did a quick Google and here are two links that explain a couple of possible causes:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/9252/page/2

http://bradleyland.net/2009/04/wordpress-mu-redirect-loop-during-install/