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you don’t want write on public for your root folder – the recommended permissions for htaccess file is 644 -rw-r–r– try just modyfying the permissions for the actual file .

this page of the WP codex is helpful if you haven’t already run across it.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions

I would give it a read as it sounds as though you may well have set slightly dangerous file/folder permissions now.

Editing a file without filename on windows systems is possible you just need to use a decent code/text editor, but definitely not notepad or the like, failing that you should be able to upload say htaccess.htaccess and simply rename it once uploaded to the remote server removing the filename.

Have you checked on wordpress.org to amend a game plugin?

I wrorte about an issue here
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/409388?replies=2
to clarify, the ajax chat box keeps popping up in group chat in new pages created by group extension plugins eg: links, albums etc
Group pages like activity or forums it stays out of the way unless called upon.

Any ideas?

@angelntini You’ll probably have to create the file if that folder’s not writeable. I use to have to do that. Just create a blank .htaccess file. Then, paste the code in. Or make it writeable so that it can be updated from within WordPress.

The standard WordPress .htaccess will be on the root directory of your website (once you enable pretty permalinks, at least).

Yes it really works, thank you very much: Forumov Setup
A configuration file could not be created. No problem, but you will need to save the text shown below into a file named bb-config.php in the root directory of your WordPress installation before you can start using the forum functionality.

Here is a simple guide:
http://sparun.in/a-simple-buddypress-guide/

Here is a more involved guide:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/the-buddypress-manual/

Hope it helps… BTW, I’ve posted questions that have gone unanswerd on this site for days..(some weeks) Sooner or later somebody answers, if not -that’s the way it goes when you’re not paying for support and your using an open-sourced product. The guys at http://premium.wpmudev.org/ offer paid support if you need it. Also the guys at http://bp-dev.org/ will hire out for projects. The core group of coders here are pretty amazing…

After seaching for a month as to what the best social site software is for my use, I kept coming back to Buddypress because it allowed me the freedom to do what I wanted… The others were very restrictive in their “canned” solutions. I’m pretty happy so far. AND very much looking forward to the major update of WordPress 3.0 Stable, coupled with Buddypress NEW Stable… it looks as though all of the problems that I have had are going to be fixed in a month or so…

FYI, 3.0 RC3 is now available: https://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/3-0-rc3/

So I know classifieds uses another blog for all of its posted data though going into wordpress 3 I think that it would be better if classifieds used the new post type function.

@seanbaugh What I posted above was for two single WP installs. I have to add that if you’re going to do the above, make sure that the 1st WP install and the 2nd WP install have the same versions. So if existing install is WP 2.9.2, then your second install must also be WP 2.9.2 – can’t guarantee it will work if you use different versions. Just backup your 1st install’s database first if you want to experiment with different versions.

@chucksweatt

@pjnu

wait for version 3.0 to be release
wpmu2.9.2 is basically a merge of standalone wordpress and wpmu.
you can enable multisite (wpmu) in 3.0 by a simple wp-config.php file edit

This is fantastic — thank you mercime for providing this information.

Your second WP install in subdomain should be installed in the same database (with different prefix) with your first WP install. Btw, backup your database before trying this. So in wp-config.php of the second WP install, just before “That’s it, you can stop editing” you should also add:
define(‘CUSTOM_USER_TABLE’, ‘wp_users’);
define(‘CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE’, ‘wp_usermeta’);

Having said that WP 3.0 is around the corner, when you upgrade you can make your install multisite and define BuddyPress in subsite in subdomain or subdirectory structure, and you have one log-in for members to access both areas.