Thank you nadiamode for sharing. It seems there is no difference between yours and mine. Creede I updated my themes so I am very confused now?!?!?
Does anyone know why I would be getting a 200 error?
Without a trailing slash my website reads as though it is a different address. If someone can give me an idea, I would appreciate it. Actually, I am kinda shocked that I am the only one with this problem, doesn’t anyone else have this problem? My mu wordpress is standard. The only difference I can think is that I am not using the buddypress-home theme?
Looks like I forgot to update my buddypress-home and buddypress-member themes. It’s all better now.
I’ll help as well. In fact I said I’d look at the whole of both themes with a view to making them more modular and easy to style. That will include IE fixes, microformats etc.
I just need time…
I think there needs to be an is_page() check done before the URL hijacking takes place. Can you submit a ticket for this at: https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket (wp.org support forum login creds)
ok – I’m a moron – I figured it out – what I did was renamed(despite the big, bold warning in the theme install.txt) the buddypress-home folder to ‘home’ rather than leaving it as buddypress-home and completely removing the home directory. Now all looks good and I can start to ‘play’. Thanks to all that responded and I promise to read the instructions more carefully before future posts.
ok – I have the ‘BuddyPress Home Theme 0.1’ activated and I’ve added all of the available widgets to ‘Sidebar 1′(which is the only option available in the dropdown and I also do not see any plugins available but I believe that is by design as, per a prior post, all plugins are automatically on and won’t show under plugins and all I’m still seeing on the home page is the standard bp header, the bp logo and a ‘This is a WordPress MU + BuddyPress powered site’ at at the top and a ‘This is just a placeholder theme, eventually you will be able to make this an aggregation of site content, or a site blog’ message in the footer. Is there a newer version or am I still missing something? Again, any help would be appreciated – I really want to be able to fully eval this app but it’s starting to get a bit frustrating.
are all the sections on the bp theme home page (recent blogs, who’s online?, etc…) only allowed to be added in as widgets or can you implement them by using template tags?
I still have problems I re-downloaded 431 and installed everything; buddypress new themes and muplugins. However when I look at the avatar I upload I get the following:
http://famous.tm/wp-content/blogs.dir/382/files//2008/10/famous-square3-avatar1.jpg
files//2008 The only reason I said a directory issue is cause the // between files and 2008 looks peculiar.
And I still have the same problem with trying to sign up as member lengsh has confirmed.
Do you have an idea of what it could be?
C’mon Andy, I was just about to overtake myspace… 
haha!
I don’t think that is the problem. Have you updated all files, included the themes? The theme names have changed.
Do you already have all the widgets added to the columns that you want? The theme won’t add recent blogs, newest online, ect. Those are all widgets that need to be added. I believe it is currently suggested that you use all of them to maximize compatibility.
Thanks for the response. I do see that there is a ‘home’ theme and I have now changed to that theme but, beyond the buddypress look in the header, it looks nothing like the testbp home page – i.e. no recent blogs, who’s online, newest members, groups – widgets(hopefully that is the correct term). Sorry if I sound so ignorant on this – I assume I’m just missing something pretty obvious so any – patient – help would be appreciated.
I am not 100% sure that the download offers the home theme – yet.
Go to the Site Admin menu, pick Themes and make sure the BP theme is the only one enabled. Then users can’t change themes.
Any plugin you put in the mu-plugins folder does NOT show up on the Plugins menu. That is for plugins that are in the plugins folder. So no, you won’t see any BP related plugins there to to turn them off and on, because in the mu-plugins folder, plugins are always ON.
If you really want to understand how WPMU works, to take full advantge of what it can do and get a feel for what you’re in for, check out http://wpmututorials.com , or sign up at wordpress.com to check out the user’s perspective & compare it to testbp.org.
Andy has tossed around a few ideas about having the solution you are looking at as an option. There is a thread in these forums that is pretty recent.
I have my site set to a regular home page, however I set my profile page under http://mysite.com/members
I do not want to use my homepage as the (buddypress homepage) member page, I want to use the member page, however, it is set as a buddypress profile page. I want that page to be the buddypress home page. However, there is not an option to change it under the profile admin somehow the design function is disabled. What are my solutions??? Thanks
Set the main blog to use the ‘home’ theme and don’t assign or have or have available the ‘buddypress’ theme for anyone.. it’ll automatically be used for profiles.
“I was hoping for a main page similar to wordpress.com and then have the social features presented to each person who signs up.”
The BP theme is for each person who signs up. To have all the nifty front page features means you’ll have to wait for Andy to make one, or cobble together on your own.
Hint: it will be a different theme than the BP *user* theme. 
Will the home base database remain empty all the time and in future development? I plan to use the username.example.com as the default blog for each user, like the normal WPMU does, instead of using it as the home base. The social networking stuff will reside under the main domain. It will avoid confusing of having the blog & the user profile in the same level. I’ll examine budypress theme and look for some way to integrate it to the ‘home’ theme.
All I concern about now is, will it create conflict? I don’t really understand what those empty database are used for.
Neither…
username.example.com gets the profile
blog.example.com gets the blog
Since the home base is an empty blog each url has to be one or the other. Bear in mind, I created my theme pretty much from scratch and am not using the BP theme.
My theme would work just as well on example.com/username/ & example.com/blog/
@ron_r
Are you using
username.example.com/profile or
example.com/profile/username for the URL structure?
Anybody is working with the latter one?
Yep. I check in the header to see if it’s a home base or blog and render accordingly.
@ron_r. Do you mean you’re using the same theme to handle the main domain & the profile?
Can you tell me from where I can get this widgets who is in home screen of the Mockup theme?
The /profile/ wouldn’t be that difficult to do…
page template that’s part of the theme that looks up the owner & displays the profile +
hook the activation to create the page using the template.
There is only one theme going to be used on the site I’m working on so the loop code and profile code can coexist in the same template.
Yep. Should work. Not retroactively, but on all news ones created after that.
Ron and I were also thinking on the public side, you could do a check at the top of the theme profile page for is_logged_in, than if not, display something else.
That is kind of a pain isn’t it. I was a little lucky since most of my blogs on one of my installs were using domain mapping, so I just changed their blog names to something else if they were using their main username and then created the homebase for them with their username. That is why it is easier to start from scratch and import blogs if you don’t have many rather than transforming a huge install over. I am not sure what the solution is, but it would be nice to have the option to put the homebase into an extension URL like username.bloghost.com/profile/ rather than having to have its own blog, but still have the dashboard created for the blog at that extension. All and all it really is a slippery slope either way though…
Trent
