BuddyPress.org

@EvilChicken

Yes, I believe bbPress is already improving quite rapidly; while it has nowhere near as many features as vB, my instinct is that the combo of BuddyPress + bbPress is actually more useful overall, especially when you consider how the forums are spread out among groups, giving a more intuitive and “lighter” feel.

bbPress 1.0 should be released with the next week or so (it is currently on RC1) and it’s development has been given a boost by the resources Automattic are pouring into their new commercial service, TalkPress.com.

Upcoming bbPress improvements include easier integration with WP and MU, which will be a huge relief. If the massive WordPress community starts to swing behind bbPress, we can expect some pretty good plugins to emerge, whereas I believe vB’s community of voluntary plugin developers has already started to hemorrhage. Certainly, the fact that they are closing all threads mentioning BuddyPress suggests they feel threatened by it.

… if anyone is interested in…

I re-installed everything and forums are now working

BUT still have problems with a couple of issues…

1.) Can’t leave a group (still the same problem)

2.) Can’t invite friends to the groups

Haven’t tested the problem #4 (I can’t reject or accept membership requests by clicking the link in the notice email. If I click the link I get a white page and text “Are you sure you want to do this?” (WordPress failure notice) but no links.”

The answer to this question, were anyone else interested, is explained here: http://www.yoursiteisvalid.com/validnews/override-wordpress-default-widgets-307.html

You can find the particular widget’s initial code in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-widgets.php

I knew that any answer would have to be tempered with variables…

But what you have given me is really good information, including growth and reliability. I looked at Slicehost a little bit yesterday…

And then a friend told me that Bluehost just allowed a one click Buddy Press install…which I have no idea how that works – seeing as I just chatted with them yesterday and they said they don’t support VPS, or WordPress MU.

i tried to delete the register.php to use the singup of wordpress but still no email for confirmation is sent!

as long as i have buddypress plugin activated, no emails are sent! what should i do or didnt have to do exactly??

im completely confused and dunno what to do! please someone help me with this issue!

Yes, I followed through. The problem is that I can’t get past the second step during the creation of config file for the Forums. It just gives an error when I filled everything in according to the instructions: Please check the settings, then try again, after i clicked Save WordPress Integration Settings.

BuddyPress 1.0

Wordpress MU 2.7.1

*replaced db name w/ mydb – and this is the errors that show at the bottom of the page in the admin – if I delete the BP plugin, the messages all go away.

WordPress database error Table ‘mydb.wp_bp_xprofile_data’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT d.value, f.name FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data d, wp_bp_xprofile_fields f WHERE d.field_id = f.id AND d.user_id = 1 AND f.parent_id = 0 AND f.name = ‘Name’ made by require, require_once, require_once, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_setup_globals, bp_core_global_user_fullname, bp_fetch_user_fullname, xprofile_get_field_data, BP_XProfile_ProfileData->get_value_byfieldname WordPress database error Table ‘mydb.wp_bp_xprofile_fields’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_fields WHERE name = ‘Name’ made by require, require_once, require_once, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_setup_globals, bp_core_global_user_fullname, bp_fetch_user_fullname, xprofile_set_field_data, xprofile_get_field_id_from_name, BP_XProfile_Field->get_id_from_name WordPress database error Table ‘mydb.wp_bp_notifications’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT * FROM wp_bp_notifications WHERE user_id = 1 AND is_new = 1 made by require, require_once, include, get_footer, locate_template, load_template, require_once, wp_footer, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_admin_bar, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_adminbar_notifications_menu, bp_core_get_notifications_for_user, BP_Core_Notification->get_all_for_user

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.