Hey buddy – I was running into permalink issues and learned that there are good and bad ways to go about it. I’d suggest reading this article to make your final decision: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
If you’re wondering I decided to use: /%category%/%postname%
esploded; we need at the very least a link to your site, BuddyPress and WordPress version numbers, whether you’re using multisite, and whether you’re on IIS or not 
@Stigmartyr
Thanks for the article. I will play around with that.
The permalinks structure that you used doesn’t work on mine unfortunately; I just get redirects to my homepage.
@Paul_Gibbs
My site is not live, I’m building it on MAMP.
Buddypress 1.2.9, WordPress 3.2.1.
I’m not using Multisite.
Is IIS the thing microsoft makes? If so, no, I use a mac.
Here are more specifics about the problems.
-All pages redirect to home
-When clicking on a specific group, it redirects to home
-When clicking on a specific forum topic, it redirects to home
-Friends, general groups, general forums and activity stream work fine
@Paul Gibbs (sorry edit on the forums aren’t working)
Meant @djpaul
sigh.
delete and edit on buddypress.org is not functioning
@esploded – thanks for sharing that info – can you tell us more about your hosting solution? Are you on a linux or windows server and specifically are you using Apache or IIS. You can ask your host.
In my reading I’ve found some guides that might help with that depending on what you have handling your http requests.
@Stigmartyr
I’m using MAMP which is a local hosting application for Mac.
It runs Apache and MySQL.
Do the plugins I run have to do with this?
It happened suddenly- though I don’t remember running any new plugins.
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The permalinks structure that you used doesn’t work on mine unfortunately; I just get redirects to my homepage.
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That *should* work out of the box, especially since you’ve said you’re using MAMP (which is what I dev on, too)… what does your .htaccess file look like?
@djpaul What specifically would you like to see?
Under my htaccess file, I have
bp-maintenance.php
bps-maintenance-values.php
default.htaccess
deny-all.htaccess
maintenance.htaccess
secure.htaccess
wpadmin-secure.htaccess
default.htaccess looks like this:
`# BULLETPROOF .46.D >>>>>>> DEFAULT .HTACCESS
# If you edit the line of code above you will see error messages on the BPS status page
# WARNING!!! THE default.htaccess FILE DOES NOT PROTECT YOUR WEBSITE AGAINST HACKERS
# This is a standard generic htaccess file that does NOT provide any website security
# The DEFAULT .HTACCESS file should be used for testing and troubleshooting purposes only
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
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More specifics…
for example, if I press the “about” page from the menu bar, it goes to http://localhost/wordpress/category/betas/
BUT what it shows it the homepage. Is it possible this is not a permalinks issue? (sorry, I should’ve said this earlier, but it still redirects the data to the homepage, just not the url)
@djpaul @Stigmartyr all right, I think this isn’t a permalinks issue. I deleted ALL of my posts, making my homepage naked except for the slideshow (now empty), menu bar and widgets. Now when I click on a page (say about), I get
Quote:
Not Found
Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.
Any ideas on what the problem is?
Or should I create a new topic?
Sorry to post so much, but I found what the problem was. It’s a plugin called “Permalink Fix & Disable Canonical Redirects Pack”. It was really useful because I can use MAMP + wordpress on firefox, but it went rogue.
So now here’s the new problem: How do I work on my wordpress/buddypress on firefox? Because now I get this like before:
“The page isn’t redirecting properly.
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.”
got same problem change permalink from default none of the page links work and any buddypress links come back page not found
@dsg257 are you also on MAMP? Is mod_rewrite enabled in your server?
got it fixed enabled Mod_rewrite and the . htaccess file updated but had to delete blank line before it would work
thanks
