Have you updated the bp-themes?
I’ve tried disabling -all- plugins running my site naked, although, it didn’t work at all;
My first work was the upgrade of my existing theme to the new standards ; although that gives the same error as the “buddypress home RC2” theme.
I’m not really convinced this is themes related…
I’m 100% sure it’s not mu-plugins related either, because I’ve tried disabling all those by moving them away, disabling sunrise in wp-config.php and it did nothing else more than rendering a lot useless and giving the same 404 errors on the main domain.
the plugins directory I moved too, backed up the database before moving them, logging in, lots of things not working anymore including the slugs, which were still giving the same 404 errors …
restored the database, plugin directories, mu-plugins and enabled sunrise again, because it didn’t matter at all; except that my blog articles are currently working towards the world …
P2 theme be used ONLY in users’ own blog (subdomain). It on main side (domain) is “buddypress – home” theme.
Make sure you are updating your bp theme and it is in /wp-content/bp-themes
Make sure you update the bp home theme
Disable all other plugins
Justme1-
Okay a couple more questions:
- You say that your site is now up and running. Did adding that additional line to WPMU’s config file make that happen?
- When you upgraded to WPMU 2.7.1, did you log into the backend as site admin then go to the Site Admin > Upgrade and finish the upgrade?
- Are you using a custom theme?
- Did you move the themes into their proper location following these instructions?
- Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress activated?
The last question should not be a factor, but it helps to know your overall setup.
I installed latest trunk, but nothing changed
Unless you have somethig you need to keep, remove Everything
Thanks Andy
I don’t have much, cause I’m still learning. Should I delete the whole installation and start from scratch or just the BuddyPress?
I chose the domain name before reading the domain policy, so I’ll change that 
Thanks again
I am having exactly the same problem, tested with the standard themes on http://beta.artistblog.me ; doesn’t work .. 404 errors on all SLUGS, starting at the one above.
When testing this on the main domain, http://artistblog.me ; with my own themes, I get exactly the same errors. When putting the standard themes on the main domain … no luck ..
It’s driving me crazy since the entire social networking is off-line …
I’ve upgraded the themes and all…
If you are not using custom themes yet, just delete everything and start from scratch with RC-2. By the looks of it, you don’t have much data yet.
Follow the install instructions step by step and you will be fine:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypress/
Also, please don’t use “buddypress” in your domain name. When we get a hosting page set up on this site, we can’t link to your site if it breaks the domain policy.
er, please check out my current work in progress at:
http://buddypress-hosting.com
Its broked 
First change your home theme to a standard WordPress default theme, disable all other plugins, then try and delete.
99.9% of the time it’s going to be because you haven’t upgraded your theme properly. If you are seeing problems like this, try the default theme first, and if it works with that then it’s your theme.
Nr. 1 and 3 got solved – I didn’t update my custom member-theme correctly… But the main topic about the search is still hot and not solved
For me it got solved. I used a cutsom theme, and I didn’t update the theme correctly. Now it works.
We just went life with our new portal for young people:
http://www.young-people.ch
(sorry, it’s german, but you will see the functions…)
Those “specials ” are implemented so far:
– totally customized theme (home and member)
– home theme with special friends-activity stream when logged in (like on facebook)
– lots of user generated content (media-reviews directly connected with amazon, ressources, downloads, etc etc). I used the TDOMiniForms Plugin for that…
– special use of the premium-plugin “upgrades”. Instead of having to buy credits for more blog-space you earn credits by submitting articles to the public
– some bp-dev components (subscribe to blogs, etc)
It still has some bugs, but hopefully they are solved after the beta. The old Portal (running on Lotus Nots – how wan’t to believe that ) had 2500 Members. Right now every minute there are registering new members…
Check it out and post a feedback in my wire …
Yes future proofing themes will be from 1.0 forward – pre releases do not count as anything is subject to change.
Andy, do you mind commenting on this?
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2009
I want to know what direction to take in converting my component. If there will be an “official” version, I might wait.
Lastly, will our components be “Future Proof” like the themes from here forward?
https://buddypress.org/blog/news/why-your-buddypress-themes-are-future-proof/
Thanks for your input!
@Justme1-
If you do not have that line in your wp-config file, it means you used an older version. I just checked a new WPMU 2.7.1 download and the wp-config-sample.php file has this additional line in it.
Anyway, this line goes in the section that starts with this comment:
/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
As far as your last question, yes. You will have lots of issues using the BuddyPress themes until BuddyPress is successfully activated.
You’re right, Jeff, that seems to be the last option. Thankfully, this is on a test install. The part that makes me nervous is, what happens if this happens on my live site, too? Cleaning house wouldn’t be an option there. It’s a conundrum. If I discover anything I’ll certainly pass along the news.
Thank you, John, Paul, and Jeff, for giving me your time and help on this.
Thanks, I will check that out.
I think I still need MU though, as I want each person to have his/her own “page aka limited blog”.
Basically what I’d like users to be able to do is show up on the site, see a “home page” of all posts and various feeds that the main admin controls, have a “blog” of their own that they can control posts on (but not modify themes, plugins, etc), and be able to use the BP plugins to interact socially with each other.
Okay, at this stage I’d say it’s time to clean house.
If this is a test dev install–meaning you do not have it in production mode–then I recommend deleting absolutely everything. This means the database file as well.
Install a clean, new copy of WPMU 2.7.1 plus BuddyPress RC2 and see what happens. After WPMU is properly installed, then install BuddyPress RC2 using the plugin browser as described here: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypress/
Let us know how that goes.
Barry, I feel what Magi182 says is worth a try.
That’s why I asked you whether you had followed suggestion posted on this page.
One thing I saw was that …/user/your name looks critically different from the corresponding page at my site, and the @import directive in your page looked odd to me, though I knew what should be there only from Magi182’s suggestion for replacement.
In fact I too wanted to say “You’ll keep running into problems trying to do more advanced stuff on their [Godaddy’s] servers”. That’s a very savvy, pragmatic advice.
I certainly think you can resolve your problem soon.
