BuddyPress.org

Thanks,
I checked my cPanel and I can clearly see that WP is in the public_html.

Click into the wordpress folder, rename wp-config-sample.com to wp-config.com
What is the purpose of this action??

/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

So I suppose I don’t need to change my database information…?

Is that mean that I can use BuddyPress now?

Sorry I didn’t want to be rude, there is so many scams online so I wasn’t sure.

Thank you for your links. I’m studding it now.

In required section I found this information:

WordPress should be installed manually i.e. via FTP, cpanel, etc. and NOT via webhost scripts (fantastico, softalicious, etc.)which bring about numerous issues when BuddyPress is activated.

I use zyma.com for hosting my website. I downloaded WP in my cpanel, but when I click on WP (in my cpanel) it redirect me to…softalicious.
Is that mean that I cannot use BuddyPress correctly?

@henrywright
Could not get it to work. I ‘fixed’ it by removing the whole option for users to change their password. If they want to change it, they can use the lost password option. That does work with wordpress security plugins.

I tested it on my site and on a clean installation and both do not work on members/member_name/settings/ . Users do see a password strength meter, but can still change their password into something simple as 1 or A. How did you get it to work on members/member_name/settings/?

With WordPress there are many plugins (none that work with buddypress frond-end settings page) that set a minimum strength for passwords. Such as Login Security Solution and iThemes Security. You can force users to change their password or set an amount of days when users must change their password.

It seems like a major security problems (that has existed for a few years) that Buddypress allows simple passwords such as 1 and A on members/member_name/settings/

@modemlooper thanks for the suggestion, I will change that from “register” to something else 🙂 I have tried changing the url on permlinks to a handful or different possibilities and still I get the 404 page, I have also tried all suggestions at: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/the-requested-url-register-was-not-found-on-this-server/ including adding a .htaccess file which was not in my WordPress root directory for some reason, I have also tried enabling mod_rewrite in Apache to no avail, I’m stocked 🙁

@danbp thanks! but the pages are created! I went to WordPress and set them up, I did however had an error I did while trying to figure things out with the registration page pointing to the wrong url, I have fixed that since you told me, also on the BudyPress settings I have assigned them to the different components, still the pages are just blank.

Also I’m not sure what the pretty permlinks is? is this changing the Permlinks settings in wordpress to something like “Post Name” ? I’m going to read configure-components page again top to bottom, again thanks so much for your help!

PS: I changed the permlinks in wordpress to “Post Name” and now all component pages are not just blank but they cannot be found. ahhhhh I’m sooooooo confused! lol