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Which versions of WPMU and BuddyPress are you running?

Do you have any other plugins besides BuddyPress installed? Do you receive any error messages?

Have you read this post? https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2190#post-11864

When uploading creating a group error 500 shows

Okay, so your server is throwing an Error 500–Internal Server Error.

A few more questions:

• Which hosting company are you using?
• Is your site running PHP 4 or PHP5?

There are a few additional steps that can be taken–increasing the memory limit in php.ini and forcing Apache to run PHP 5, assuming that it is not.

I’m actually going to get some sleep now. So, please reply and if someone else reads this before I do tomorrow, perhaps they’ll continue helping you.

Good luck! I\’ll check back.

Okay, so you’re site is running PHP5. I’m guessing that what is happening then is a PHP is running into a memory limit. So, we’re going to help PHP by boosting its memory limit.

You’ll need to make a file called php.ini. Inside this new file, put this:

memory=48MB

Once you’ve created that file, upload it to your wp-admin directory.

On some installs, I’ve had to boost the memory to 96MB. If 48MB does not work, try increasing.

Let me know how that goes.

just a quick question, what is this memory limit thing

i know it prevents me from uploading big images etc, but what is it actually refering to?

the chunk of memory allocated to the script at runtime? ie is this just space in ram for php to use?

@Erichamby-

Wait!

I’m glad it worked, but you need to do two things:

1. Say what was the solution

2. Turn on the green light –the topic is solved!

Good luck with the other 235k things!

Thanks for the info–and setting this thread to green!