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If you are using IIS, you might have to follow the directions suggested here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite

I don’t think IIS supports mod_rewrite which is what WP uses (and BP).

Does your site work with BP installed?

Bummer. IIS isn’t really that common with WP and I think the majority of people here are using Apache based hosts.

You could try what is mentioned at the end of this thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/friendly-http-error-messages-causes-404

The specific error it talks about isn’t what you’re seeing though as I get a 404 on your site with Firefox also.

This link talks about a modified 404 error handler to deal with some of the oddities in IIS handling:

http://ikailo.com/94/url-modrewrite-workaround-iis-60/

If you do get this working, please post back here and/or in the FAQ topic because it seems there are a lot of IIS users running into similar issues.

I’m experiencing virtually the same problem. See waterwaywatch.org. The site is based on WP 2.92 and Buddypress 1.2.3 then Buddypress Widget Theme. I have tried various flavours of Buddypress with a variety of other themes aa well as trying to install as a sub-directory and in the root. The current trial is roo-based.

Looking at your website you will see that when you click on the links that work the url on is based on the root and the other contains a reference to /index.php/. When you click on other menu items – say members – the url is based on the root – thus /members/ . Clicking on that gives a raw 404. If you change that to /index.php/members/ you will find that you will get a page from your website that just says ‘Page not found’. (On my website I don’t get ‘page not found, I get the home page).

Now the bad news. I have shown that this is somehow related to /index.php/ but despite playing with this for the past week, I haven’t been able to figure out what is wrong – let us hope that someone here will take the clue and figure out the answer.

One other thing – if you create a new folder in the root called, say, /members/ and place a dummy index.htm in there, then as expected clicking on Members will open that page.

All this suggest to me some sort of mis-redirection – can anyone help?

Cheers

Will

@adiallo

Please read three posts above you:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/404-error-on-bp-links#post-46617

Then your problem isn’t the same as the original poster’s.

Try changing your permalinks.

I change permanent link (from default to month and name) but it still giving me 404 error on every BP link beside logging out. I am totally clueless here.

Thanks 4 helping

Finally I got it working

Well first add the lines from this patch https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1426 to bp-core/bp-core-catchuri.php

and then go to bp-core.php and in line 95 put the code like this (note the index.php) $bp->root_domain = bp_core_get_root_domain() . '/index.php';

Well, also, I have a custom template, and in my navigation I have manually put the links in the header to look like this: <li><a href="http://yourdomain.com/wordpress/index.php/activity/" title="Actividad">Actividad</a></li> but it probably works also in the bp-default theme.

So, hope this help someone

@dandam It seems i coppied the wrong link, here it is the real one https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2299

And the link to the patch is this one https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/2299/iis.patch