Topic: Can't Create New Blogs

Can't Create New Blogs

@kengary

Participant

15 years, 5 months ago

1. I am running version 2.8.2 of WPMU

2. It is installed as a directory install

3. It is in the http://family-quilt.com/blogs/ subdirectory.

4. This is a new installation, not an upgrade

5. It was not an upgrade so the functionality has never worked.

6. I am using version 1.0.3 of Buddypress

7. BuddyPress was a new install, not an upgrade.

8. No other plugins are installed and activated yet.

9. I am using the default BuddyPress theme. Just changed the logo slightly.

10. I have not modified any core files other than adding a forums link to the header.php on the themes.

11. I have no custom functions in bp-custom.php (yet).

12. I am running the latest version of bbPress but

13. There have been no errors in the server log files that I can find.

I’m new to mu and I just did two version 2.8.2 installs on my account in two different domains. One works and one doesn’t but I don’t know what I could have done differently. I have the settings in each one set to the same thing. These are the first time I have tried this with mu although I’m very familiar with WordPress.

I also added the BuddyPress plugin and themes. And I’ve got bbPress installed.

In the one that does not work, which is the first one I installed, what happens is that when you click on the Create Blog link you end up on your profile page instead. Every time.

It will not go to the create blog screen no matter what.

I’ve deleted the database tables and have re-installed. I’ve re-uploaded all of the files. Still the same weird thing happening.

I’m just using the subfolder like /blogs/membername not any fancy domain mapping or anything.

I could sure you some help to figure this out. Thanks in advance.

Ken

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@rohan_kapoor

Participant

15 years, 5 months ago

It would be best for wordpress mu if it was installed in the document root. As in not the /blogs/ but directly.

@mariusooms

Participant

15 years, 5 months ago

I hate to mention this as I read between your lines it looks like indeed you have enabled the option for users to create new blogs? As it is disabled by default. The fact that you have a link to create blogs tells me you have.

Sorry, but I had to ask…just in case.

@rohan_kapoor

Participant

15 years, 5 months ago

That would be pretty funny.

@kengary

Participant

15 years, 5 months ago

Yes, under Site Admin -> Options -> Allow New Registrations I have it set to “Only Logged In Users Can Create New Blogs”

New users are added as “Subscribers”.

But even the admin, when logged in, cannot create a new blog. The links go to /blogs/members/admin/blogs/create-a-blog but you don’t end up on that page…you go to your profile instead.

Is there another setting where you have to enable it?

That would be funny. Hilarious actually. ::he says in a deadpan voice::

@kengary

Participant

15 years, 5 months ago

Rohan, The instructions give /blogs/ as a specific example of installing it in a directory on your site. My root folder (home page) is going to be something else on this site so I can’t have it there.

@kengary

Participant

15 years, 5 months ago

So…I re-installed and when it was just WordPress mu without BuddyPress it works. The page for creating blogs is /blogs/wp-signup.

I could add users and those users could go to that page and create a blog.

So I re-enabled BuddyPress and it went back to sending them to /blogs/members/username/blogs/create-a-blog as the address on all of the links to create the blog but when you click on (or even type it directly into the browser) you always end up at just /blogs/members/username no matter what. It’s being redirected for some unknown reason.

Is this not ringing any bells for anyone on what this problem might be?

@kengary

Participant

15 years, 5 months ago

So guess what fixed it?

I changed the folder where WordPress mu was installed from /blogs/ to /blog/ and now it works Ok.

If I had installed it in the root directory there would have been no problems.

But look at what the WordPress mu installation instructions say…

“If you want to have your WordPress MU installation in its own subdirectory on your web site (e.g. http://example.com/blogs/), rename the directory wordpressmu to the name you’d like the subdirectory to have and move or upload it to your web server. For example if you want the WordPress MU installation in a subdirectory called “blog”, you should rename the directory called “wordpressmu” to “blog” and upload it to the root directory of your web server.”

Notice their first “example” is /blogs/’ and then in their second example they just say /blog/. I went with the first reference because I liked it better.

The BuddyPress documentation just says get WordPress mu working and then BuddyPress will work. I never saw anywhere that it said, “Oh, by the way…just don’t install it in a subfolder called /blogs/ or it will get confused by the redirects we do in /members/blogs/ and it won’t work so don’t do that.”

I’m being sarcastic. This is probably a bug or an unforseen situation (really?) but anyway, whether or not this would have affected anyone else it is what fixed it for me.

@mariusooms

Participant

15 years, 5 months ago

Glad you found it and tanks for reporting back the solution for the issue!

@johnjamesjacoby

Keymaster

15 years, 5 months ago

Yep that’s exactly the problem with subdirectory installations, and why MU is best left as the center of your entire website. The /blogs/ url is hijacked by BuddyPress, so nothing else can live inside of it; same with /members, /groups, and probably eventually /forums too, once there’s a directory for them also.

kengary, if you plan on having another site at the root of your installation, have you considered using another MU blog as your root blog, and using BP on something other than the root? Or, having your root site not center itself around the BP installation or theme, and just page-out the specific BP pages that you want/need?

@sienteastu

Participant

13 years, 11 months ago

I have the wordpress Mu with buddypress on mysite.com/blogs. Whem i want to create a new blog from top navigation bar, it show me that page can’t be found. Is this problem for this??

Thank’s

@ostralopithicus

Participant

13 years, 9 months ago

I’ve an installation that’s been running fine for some time with four blogs. Today I went to add a new one and the backend indicated that it was successful. I then tried to go to the blog and received this lovely message “Error establishing a database connection”. I tried going to the dashboard for the site and received a message that there might be something wrong with the database and it suggested that I add a line to my config file to allow WP to try and fix the problem. I did so and reloaded the page as suggested and it attempted to repair the DB but failed giving this as the output and telling me to post it in a support forum!!! So here I am:

aaaWpMu_6_posts: Table ‘earthsociety_WPMUCore27Oct2010.aaaWpMu_6_posts’ doesn’t exist
aaaWpMu_6_comments: Table ‘earthsociety_WPMUCore27Oct2010.aaaWpMu_6_comments’ doesn’t exist
aaaWpMu_6_links: Table ‘earthsociety_WPMUCore27Oct2010.aaaWpMu_6_links’ doesn’t exist
aaaWpMu_6_options: Table ‘earthsociety_WPMUCore27Oct2010.aaaWpMu_6_options’ doesn’t exist
aaaWpMu_6_postmeta: Table ‘earthsociety_WPMUCore27Oct2010.aaaWpMu_6_postmeta’ doesn’t exist
aaaWpMu_6_terms: Table ‘earthsociety_WPMUCore27Oct2010.aaaWpMu_6_terms’ doesn’t exist
aaaWpMu_6_term_taxonomy: Table ‘earthsociety_WPMUCore27Oct2010.aaaWpMu_6_term_taxonomy’ doesn’t exist
aaaWpMu_6_term_relationships: Table ‘earthsociety_WPMUCore27Oct2010.aaaWpMu_6_term_relationships’ doesn’t exist
aaaWpMu_6_commentmeta: Table ‘earthsociety_WPMUCore27Oct2010.aaaWpMu_6_commentmeta’ doesn’t exist

Any thoughts? Do I need to rebuild my entire database? What caused this in the first place?

@ostralopithicus

Participant

13 years, 9 months ago

I’ve deleted the site and tried again with the same result. For some reason the tables aren’t being created. Where can I access relevant log files? I’m on a paid host ICDSoft, so I don’t have access to server logs, are there logs made by WP?

@hnla

Participant

13 years, 9 months ago

To be honest you are not really on the right support forum are you? Blogs belong to WP, issues with those or with the WP DB are going to be best addressed to the WordPress forums.

@ostralopithicus

Participant

13 years, 9 months ago

Yeah I posted at WP forum too, just added here as this topic seemed relevant. I use BP as well, and thought some people might have had similar problems and know how to solve them. I think a lot of MU users are also BP users.