Topic: Does buddypress require a theme to work?

Does buddypress require a theme to work?

zeesh49
Participant

@zeesh49

9 years ago

Hi,

I am new to wordpress/buddypress. I have windows 7, WP v4.2 and BP v2.2.3.1. I am testing on localhost machine and have also setup a virtual host: buddypress.local:1234/WP

After activating buddypress (i have set the permalinks to other than default and checked anyone can register), when I try to register, the page just refreshes with all fields filled and the passwords fields reset to empty. How can I fix this? I have the default theme twentyfifteen enabled.

Further, any ideas on how can I test buddypress features? Do I need a buddypress compatible theme which exposes buddypress features in WP? Or can I use the default twentyfifteen theme to test buddypress features like groups, profile, notifications etc.

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zeesh49
Participant

@zeesh49

9 years ago

please help!!!

djsteveb
Participant

@djsteveb

9 years ago

bp works with default 2015 theme fine (pretty sure, 2014 theme I know), and most others.

never tried localhost thing, perhaps search the forum for “localhost or local host” to see if others have found settings or components needed to run in that environment.

zeesh49
Participant

@zeesh49

9 years ago

thanks for the response, I searched google as well as this forum, nothing…

One resolved query on this forum says to implement virtual host, did that, nothing, I checked the html, the signup form tag doesnt have an action set, I can update that in the php file, but to what?

Another post suggests thats its because of the fact that no email is registered, I wana confirm that before looking into sending emails from localhost…

Hugo Ashmore
Keymaster

@hnla

9 years ago

Are you logged in when you try and register?

zeesh49
Participant

@zeesh49

9 years ago

No, I logout, click the register link, fill the form, click complete signup and the page refreshes, I checked the html, the form doesnt have an action url…

Hugo Ashmore
Keymaster

@hnla

9 years ago

Try setting up a proper vhost container and adding a dev domain to your hosts file, the Apache manual and xammp should guide you on this.

Marcella
Participant

@marcella1981

9 years ago

Yeah, also make sure you have registration enabled in wp-admin/discussion I think.

zeesh49
Participant

@zeesh49

9 years ago

I have setup up the vhost and updated the host file,there is no server error when I follow the above mentioned process, how can I check if my vhost is setup correctly or not, its working…

zeesh49
Participant

@zeesh49

9 years ago

someone please help, ive been on this since the past three days, no success… 🙁

zeesh49
Participant

@zeesh49

9 years ago

someone? anyone?

zeesh49
Participant

@zeesh49

9 years ago

following is the vhost container

<VirtualHost *:1234>
DocumentRoot “C:/xampp/htdocs”
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:1234>
DocumentRoot “C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress”
ServerName buddypress.local
<Directory “C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress”>
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

and the host file:
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 buddypress.local
::1 buddypress.local

Ben Hansen
Participant

@ubernaut

9 years ago

this is really a wordpress/xampp setup issue not a buddypress thing. i can’t really help you because i never had any trouble setting mine up and i use mac anyway but you might be able to get more eyeballs on your problem by using the support resources for wordpress and/or xampp since buddypress is a sort of baby universe compared to the larger wordpress universe which contains it there are far fewer people here then there are there.