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[Resolved] Buddypress activation link broken


  • iamarogue
    Participant

    @iamarogue

    Hi there,

    I have an issue where activation links are directing to a page not found. For example, I was given a link that looks like this: http://kingstonnexus.ca/community/my-stuff/activate/c182046a8ed1db20520f0d7a403e4e64/
    And it directs to a page not found error

    I’ve looked into the matter and most forum topics seem to be followed up by “oh, I figured it out” – so they don’t actually say what the fix was!

    I have in my buddypress settings page a separate page for registration and activation. The registration works just fine, and it sends an email, and the link /community/my-stuff/activate/ is correct. I’ve checked permalinks and tried resaving. I’ve tried disabling all other plugins. I’ve tried using Twenty Fifteen.

    There seems to be a ticket here that seems similar, but I don’t understand it
    https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4820

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  • danbp
    Participant

    @danbp

    Can you detail your installation please ?

    Where is WordPress installed ?
    Where is BuddyPress installed ?


    iamarogue
    Participant

    @iamarogue

    Thanks for the quick response.

    I have a default install.

    My site is http://kingstonnexus.ca

    Wordpress is installed in the root directory (httpdocs on my server) (v 4.1.1)
    Buddypress is installed in wp-content/plugins/buddypress (v 2.2.1)

    Happy to provide more information I’m just not sure what you need.

    PHP 5.4, I think it’s Apache but I will have to find out.


    danbp
    Participant

    @danbp

    Ok thank you! Now i’m curious about /my-stuff/ 😉

    What is /my-stuff/ page for ?
    It contains a shortcode [woocommerce_my_account] and /activate/ cannot be found as you don’t use that shortcode or even woocommerce… Sems you omitted something.

    You should have only one activation page and this page should appear/be saved in BP settings > pages under Activation page.

    Check also your BP components page permalinks. Should be your-site/activity, your-site/members/, your-site/groups, your-site/register, your-site/activate

    If you have some pages with similar names in trash, delete them completely.


    iamarogue
    Participant

    @iamarogue

    /my-stuff/ is sort of a placeholder. I know it’s blank now. I was testing out woocommerce but it’s currently deactivated, but I was planning on integrating it in the future, so right now it’s just there. Nothing links to it, so I didn’t really see the harm. But it’s not necessary.

    Okay. So following your advice, I got rid of my-stuff. I moved /activate and /register to No Parent, emptied the Pages trash, checked my Buddypress pages settings, and saved my Permalinks structure.

    And now it works fine. Argh, the frustrating part is I don’t know what was wrong with it…

    But thanks for your help!


    danbp
    Participant

    @danbp

    The wrong thing was that you assigned a parent to a BP page. 😉
    (your-site/community/my-stuff/activate) activate was parent of my-stuff !

    BP comp’ pages are not working as ordinary WP pages. They should stay blank, without any template or parent page. Just a title and basta. They are in for internal usage only, WP’s page system gives the url and that’s enough for BP which will add fully dynamically content, depending the member and the current action.
    WP pages are static. BP’s are … ? Yes !


    iamarogue
    Participant

    @iamarogue

    Well thanks so much!

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