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  • #5434
    richrf
    Participant

    Hi everyone,

    I am the registered owner of the domain Links.com.

    For some time, I have been looking for some good community software that I can run on it, but I have rejected everything I have come across, because of on-going maintenance issues, both with the software and the community comments.

    Before, I consider the subject matter, I want to make sure that I will not have major headaches that will interrupt by rather quiet retirement. So I have two basic questions:

    1) How good is BuddyPress right now at quashing spam comments and links. It is imperative, that I keep this to zero, just as I have on my WordPress blog that exists on my site at this time. Right now, on WP, I am using Akismet and WP-Spam, as well as moderation on any comment that contains a link.

    2) Are there developers available that can enhance spam protection for me. I would like to include plugins that will eat any post that contains blacklisted words, compare any links in a post to the urls that appear in the Google Safe Browsing API database (I have working PHP code that does this for another app I developed), and also compare and reject any post that has links on the urlblacklist.com database or comparable (I also have working code for this).

    If I can be comfortable that I will not have to go around with a fly swatter deleting nasty posts and comments, I think I can go ahead and look over the software further.

    Thanks for the help.

    Rich

    #47423

    In reply to: User points

    @ChrisClayton
    Participant

    @DJ Paul

    some of the achievments in your PDF are awsome!

    cant wait to check it out.

    but im a little worried, they get points for having their friend requests rejected? so, if i joined your site, made my profile look like im a spammer and added every member on the members list and everyone rejects my profile… i get an ‘achievement’?

    thoes ‘rejected’ achievements worry me a little, but i like the others.

    #47126
    Burt Adsit
    Participant

    Nobody has deleted your post. The akismet spam police pick up suspect posts and toss them into the akismet jail some times though.

    “i need to change the main title of my bp isntall as i have changed my name about the name of the website i cant seem to find out how to change it”

    I don’t know what you are trying to change.

    #47006
    21green
    Participant

    Doas anyone know a good guide/tutorial for installing WPMU/Buddypress on OSX with XAMPP? I know i have to change localhost to localhost.localdomain. But where and how can i achieve this? And why isn’t it possible to run WPMU on localhost? No spamming, just for general interest.

    #46996
    azznonimous
    Participant

    … err … sorry fot the spam, but I see that also the upgrade deletes a custom plug-in I placed inside the buddypress folder

    #5321
    skolbloggense
    Participant

    After upgrading from 1.0. to 1.0.1my Swedish translation was gone (http://skolbloggen.se). I thought maybe “Selected English – Save – Select Swedish – Save” would help, but still English all over the site.

    After some investigation I found that /wp-content/buddypress/bp-languages/ were missing, so I created /buddypress/bp-languages/ and uploaded Swedish (http://codex.buddypress.org/translations/swedish-svenska-sv_se/) and switched between English/Swedish in admin-panel, still with no result. What am I missing?

    Ps: Deleted my first SPAM-blog today (protected signup page with reCAPTCHA wasnt enough), active guy this “zhanglingjuan115”; http://www.google.se/search?q=zhanglingjuan115&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a

    #46602
    Lynchmob
    Participant

    try to google the email address or the username and I think you will find your answer…

    #46591
    Roy McKenzie
    Participant

    And mine! I think it probably is.

    #46590
    Roger Coathup
    Participant

    and mine!

    #46581
    Kunal17
    Participant

    Yeah he registered on my BP install too

    #5234
    danbpfr
    Participant

    Since begin may, i blocked 2times zhanglingjuan115 as spammer on buddypress-fr.net/bpdemo

    Google it and you will see that this name appears on many wp sites.

    Does anybody know more about this chinese poster and how to avoid it definetely ?

    Thanks and take care. ;-)

    Moominmama
    Participant

    First of all, thanks as always to the amazing support system around the WordPress family!! You guys are great and I wouldn’t have gotten THIS far without the generous support and multitude of resources on blogs and on this forum. I’m posting after doing many searches and not finding a fix that applies. (Granted, I ain’t all that techie and I may be missing something totally obvious!)

    Here’s my site: http://www.openadoptionsupport.com

    I’m running WPMU 2.7.1 and I’ve installed it in the root of my domain at BlueHost. This is a clean, manual (not simplescripts) install and WPMU was working fine when I carefully added BuddyPress and then linked it to BBPress. These are the plugins I have activated (besides BuddyPress):

    Sitewide:

    Limit Blogs per User 1.0

    FV Community News 1.3.1

    NoSpamUser 0.7.2

    Not Sitewide:

    Akismet 2.2.3

    Contact Form 7 1.10

    Page Links To 1.8

    Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2

    I’m using the default theme.

    It’s been a rocky start but stuff is working for the most part now. However I can’t add friends. When I click “add” I don’t get any kind of ajax — I just get shot right to my own profile. So say I’m logged in as Dawn and want to friend myself as Admin (I’ve got Admin open in Firefox and Dawn open in Opera), I’ll click the “add friend” by Admin and get shot right to my Dawn profile.

    When I try to message by clicking “send a message” or by replying to a sent message, everything seems like it’s working but then when I hit send, I end up back at the “compose” page with empty fields. If I send a message from there by manually inputting the addressee (“admin”) it’ll work. Admin will get the message and (eventually) an email notification.

    Finally if I add something to the wire in a group and choose “notify members by mail” nothing shows up by mail.

    Error Logs (note: I have some other issues going on and some of these errors may be unrelated to this or they may all be one and the same — just trying not to throw EVERYTHING into one thread but I did up my php.ini memory to 128mb):

    [Sun May 31 13:56:14 2009] [warn] RewriteCond: NoCase option for non-regex pattern ‘-d’ is not supported and will be ignored.

    [Sun May 31 13:56:30 2009] [warn] RewriteCond: NoCase option for non-regex pattern ‘-f’ is not supported and will be ignored.

    [31-May-2009 08:20:43] PHP Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /home1/openboo2/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-bbpress-live.php on line 425

    [31-May-2009 07:19:32] PHP Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user ‘openboo2_oas’@’localhost’ (using password: YES) in /home1/openboo2/public_html/blogging/forum/bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php on line 123

    [31-May-2009 07:19:32] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home1/openboo2/public_html/blogging/forum/bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php:123) in /home1/openboo2/public_html/blogging/forum/bb-includes/functions.bb-pluggable.php on line 214

    [31-May-2009 08:20:43] PHP Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /home1/openboo2/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-bbpress-live.php on line 425

    [31-May-2009 08:56:25] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8192 bytes) in /home1/openboo2/public_html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 180

    [31-May-2009 08:59:05] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /home1/openboo2/public_html/wp-includes/kses.php(408) : runtime-created function on line 1

    [31-May-2009 09:07:39] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 500001 bytes) in /home1/openboo2/public_html/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 894

    #5150
    Will White
    Participant

    Now that we’ve got the buddypress up and running we’re putting together materials to add to its social features and one of the things we’d like to do is add a section for our users to upload and download files.

    This is a private server so we will not have to worry about spam.

    Our users would be uploading files like word documents, pdf’s and ppts – mainly filled with resources for each other to pull information from.

    I was thinking about setting up a page within the site and using asp.net or something but I’m not sure exactly what would be the best method.

    Anyone have any suggestions on where I can read more about this?

    Jeff Sayre
    Participant

    Rich-

    Just a couple more thoughts while I think about your situation.

    Have you determined the offending party that keeps triggering the redirects? Is it Googlebot-image? Have you disallowed it from searching your site with a robots.txt file?

    If so, then it probably is not actually the Googlebot-image spider but a spam spider attempting to masquerade as the Google image bot. A robots.txt file cannot stop a spider from crawling your site. Reputable search engines honor the robots.txt file requests, unscrupulous ones ignore it.

    For your information:

    http://www.webmasterworld.com/search_engine_spiders/3204487.htm

    http://perishablepress.com/press/2009/03/29/4g-ultimate-user-agent-blacklist/

    Are you using Firefox? With Firefox and the Web Develoepr Add-on, you can get a lot of information about errors.

    Rich Spott
    Participant

    Okay, thank you for helping me, I’ll try to go through your questions one-by-one.

    First I’ll let you know what I have:

    Slicehost

    1GB slice

    Ubuntu Hardy LTS 8.04

    Running Apache, PHP 5, MySQL 5.0 (followed Pickeled Onion’s walk-throughs on how to set it up, I am by no means an expert, and my very first barebones VPS was this one.)

    I help run http://sportsblognet.com where we have WPMU 2.7.1 and BP 1.0, along with bbPress 1.0-alpha6

    Have you tried deactivating all non-buddypress plugins, wp-super-cache in particular?

    I deactivated all but buddypress, feedwordpress (because our theme will break), wp-super-cache, and doncha’s domain mapping plugin. But maybe I will remove them all for an hour to see if any errors get through

    I am removing wp-super-cache right now, but it was tough to get rid of the wp-content/cache folder because it was owned by the root user. But i got it deleted and removed the wp-super-cache stuff in the .htaccess and I’ll guess i’ll have to wait to see how that goes.

    Have you tried using the default .htaccess file that ships with WPMU?

    I just tried to, but it won’t let me.

    My current working .htaccess (minus wp-super-cache stuff)

    <FilesMatch ".(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">
    Header set Expires "Thu, 15 Apr 2015 20:00:00 GMT"
    </FilesMatch>

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    #uploaded files
    RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

    # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
    RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
    RewriteRule . - [L]
    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
    RewriteRule . index.php [L]

    <IfModule mod_security.c>
    <Files async-upload.php>
    SecFilterEngine Off
    SecFilterScanPOST Off
    </Files>
    </IfModule>

    and the WPMU standard one

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase BASE/

    #uploaded files
    RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

    # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
    RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
    RewriteRule . - [L]
    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
    RewriteRule . index.php [L]

    <IfModule mod_security.c>
    <Files async-upload.php>
    SecFilterEngine Off
    SecFilterScanPOST Off
    </Files>
    </IfModule>

    it wont let me use the standard one, and the only difference that I can see is the expires header setting that i added.

    Are there any PHP errors in your log files?

    this is my current concern right now

    Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error.

    ALERT - canary mismatch on efree() - heap overflow detected

    for the ALERT error, I contacted slicehost and they upgraded my kernel, they said that has fixed other people’s problems (fingers crossed – but no errors since they did that this morning) if that doesnt work i have to go through and install php without the suhosin patch.

    most of the other errors are of spam scripts trying to signup and not finding wp-signup (i changed the signup name)

    what are the other listed errors in your apache log?

    That’s pretty much it.

    EDIT: it’s about 30 minutes later and an Internal Redirect Error just showed up in my logs with wp-super-cache out, and all but buddypress plugins out. So it doesn’t look like its a plugin.

    jfcarter
    Participant

    I am researching various security functions and plugins for use with my buddypress sites. I realize that some security issues have to do with the webhost, but I’d still like to take sensible and (in some cases) heightened precautions.

    So I’ve started this thread to allow everyone to share their favorite security plugins/tools/code snippets or testing programs with the community.

    Plugins

    -WPMU Signup Captcha

    -WP-Security

    -Limit login attempts

    -Members only

    I’ve also heard good things about WP-Spamfree.

    Thanks!

    #45612
    Jeff Sayre
    Participant

    Mike-

    You pose a good question. It would be useful to have the ability to re-request friendship, or at least nudge a given person to reconsider.

    Of course, as you suggest, there may be other issues like the original email was overlooked or filtered out as spam and never seen. In this case, there’s not much that can been done, especially if a member does not check their profile on a regular basis.

    But having a feature to re-request action or an admin-configurable setting that will auto-remind members every week or month to visit their profile would be a nice addition to the platform.

    I suggest creating a new enhancement ticket in trac.

    #45587
    nicolagreco
    Participant

    This plugin is now integrated better in BuddyPress and it’s included in BPDEV NoSpam http://bp-dev.org/download

    #45019
    Jeff Sayre
    Participant

    However if I register using an email on another one of my domains (however the emails are still hosted on google apps), I don’t get the activation email. I checked the spam folders but its not their either.

    Are you running this on localhost–your test server environment?

    Are you providing valid email addresses, or fictitious email addresses?

    #44862
    Kunal17
    Participant

    Jeff,

    I did what you suggested and cleared the error log. However, the registration problem is not creating any error in the error log.

    After some testing I realized that if I create a user with a @gmail address, the registration verification email gets delivered without any problems. However if I register using an email on another one of my domains (however the emails are still hosted on google apps), I don’t get the activation email. I checked the spam folders but its not their either.

    Please help.

    Burt Adsit
    Participant

    LOL. “Didn’t think I could be that much of a pain already.”

    Well this is bbpress but lots of posts with multiple links get spammed by akismet. It’s not you, it’s the post.

    Jeff Sayre
    Participant

    Dbascent94-

    That can mean that your post is being filtered out as spam by akismet. This has happened to me before as well. However, I can see your posts right now.

    #44452

    In reply to: Buddypress theme?

    The documentation/codex area provides a ton of documentation that can help you with all of these things, but there is no magic button you can press to make this happen.

    There are dozens of functions and loops that need to be installed and addressed on several files and themes to make all of BuddyPress work the way it does. All we can do is document them for you, and let you give it a try yourself. It’s up to the growing audience of BP developers to start creating themes for 1.0, and that will eventually happen, I guarantee it.

    If you’re in over your head and desperate for a theme asap, it may be time to hire someone to help you out. If you’re not looking for custom functionality and simply want a revamped BP theme, I might suggest joining the WordPress developers mailing lists and asking some WP professionals for assistance. Otherwise right now we’re pretty lenient about users asking for specific requests here (meaning we will lock the topic but we won’t delete it or spam it.)

    enlightenmental1
    Participant

    hmmmm… how did you find that!? I searched months ago for this, but found nothing…. only stuffs on password reset…

    (proly cause I was searching resend activation with spam and creating spf record)

    and here I thought I was the best googler in the world!

    #44263
    nicolagreco
    Participant

    ok i’ll add that to bpdev nospam, cool tips andy

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