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Reversing subdomain activation to subdomain


  • Sabuntu
    Member

    @sabuntu

    14 years, 9 months ago

    after activating buddypress on a subdomain, I found it better if I activated it on the root blog, so I will not confuse my members.

    I tried to reverse the process, But I completely failed

    I tried the following maneuvers but non of them succeeded:

    1- I deactivated bp plugin and deleted it –> once installed and activated again it will be activated back on blog 3

    2- I droped the bp tables in the database, installed again but the same problem

    3- I added this code to wp-config:

    define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 1 );

    define( ‘BP_AVATAR_UPLOAD_PATH’, ‘/var/www/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files’ );

    define( ‘BP_AVATAR_URL’, ‘hxxp://community.example.com’ );

    and tried to activate bp plugin again

    it activated nicely and asked me to choose a theme for buddypress but once choosing a theme I see only a blank white page and I can’t access my dashboard even

    I get to it by accessing another blog and deactivating bp plugin to get through my dashboard

    so I tried another way

    I did all of the mentioned in addition to editing my .htaccess and adding the following codes

    RedirectMatch 301 ^/members/(.*)$ http://community.example.com/members/$1

    RedirectMatch 301 ^/groups/(.*)$ http://community.example.com/groups/$1

    RedirectMatch 301 ^/blogs/(.*)$ http://community.example.com/blogs/$1

    RedirectMatch 301 ^/forums/(.*)$ http://community.example.com/forums/$1

    but non of them helped

    I still have one option to delete blog 3, but I’m sure I will be stuck and No way to do it back

    I Know I’m asking too much but Please Help Me

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  • r-a-y
    Keymaster

    @r-a-y

    14 years, 9 months ago

    Sabuntu, no need to start a new thread.

    Anyway for this:

    define ( 'BP_ROOT_BLOG', 1 );
    
define( 'BP_AVATAR_UPLOAD_PATH', '/var/www/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files' );
    
define( 'BP_AVATAR_URL', 'hxxp://community.example.com' );

    – Change your BP_AVATAR_UPLOAD_PATH so it matches your server filepath, don’t use the example code listed in the guide.

    – Change the BP_AVATAR_URL to your domain and not the example code listed in the guide

    —

    Is this site live at the moment? If you had BP installed on the root before, why not use revert to a backup (if you have one)?


    Sabuntu
    Member

    @sabuntu

    14 years, 9 months ago

    Thank you r-a-y for the illustration but I found another answer by Andrew the greatest

    You need to do the following:

    1) deactivate buddypress on the sub-blog

    2) remove all buddypress tables

    3) go into wp_sitemeta and remove all buddypress rows

    4) remove any of the lines you’ve added to wp-config.php for buddypress

    5) activate buddypress sitewide.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

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