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Hi, tim, thanks for answering. I am on WP 3.3.1 and BP 1.54, with bbpress 2.02. Yes, this is the default theme although it has a new header image. URL: connections.aiaphila.org.
Could you respond to reed@deltaangel.com? I am assisting Rick Kauffman with this site.
1. Go to Group->Admin->settings and disable the forum, then save and then re-enable it, does that help ?
2. If not, then visit php myadmin and look into wp_bp_groups_groupmeta and delete the records which has "forum_id" as key.
That will cause you to loose the current post. You may install attach bbpress forum to groups plugin(from our premium section) and reattach that forum back to group.(If you don't care about the data, then you don't need that plugin). Just visit the group again and try posting, does that solves it?
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Thanks. I deactivated all plugins except BuddyPress and bbpress. Didn't help. I also unchecked the Enable Discussion Forum checkbox, saved the settings and re-enabled it. That didn't work either. Before I try deleting the forum_id records, can you tell me what post I will lose? There are no forum posts because I cannot create any topics. But there are other posts in the Group and I don't want to lose them. I cannot locate that plugin 'attach bbpress forum to groups' that you mentioned.
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Also, my hosting service provided these errors from logs:
[Wed Feb 15 07:15:48 2012] [error] [client 66.249.71.193] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_id_from_slug() in /nas/wp/www/cluster-1077/connections/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-functions.php on line 137
[Wed Feb 15 07:16:12 2012] [error] [client 66.249.71.193] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_id_from_slug() in /nas/wp/www/cluster-1077/connections/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-functions.php on line 137
[Wed Feb 15 19:49:39 2012] [error] [client 66.249.71.193] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_site_name() in /nas/wp/www/cluster-1077/connections/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php on line 27
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Well taking one of them errors.... "bp_site_name" This is a BuddyPress function so for it to be undefined..... I would go into your admin area and go though the BuddyPress set up again and make sure all that is set up correctly.
You might also want to try unpacking a fresh set of files, removing all the old ones and uploading the fresh set.
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I have uninstalled BuddyPress and bbpress, downloaded a new copy of BP 1.5.4 and tried installing it via FTP (after unzipping) and via the standard upload in zipped form. Both install, but neither one runs the installation wizard. I still cannot create new forum topics.
What can I do to start at the very beginning - running the installation wizard? Thank you.
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Nearly everytime I seen "plugin does not have a valid header" removing the plugin and uploading via FTP seemed to fix it for the user. Worth another try....
I seem to recall one being the nesting of the directory or the files wrong, might be worth you have:
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I got the plugin to install but now see an error message saying it is not in the correct directory. But that is not the issue that matters now. What we want is Group Forums, and I cannot get them to work and I do not see the installation wizard run when uninstalling and reinstalling BP as above.
I think I have to totally delete the site files and start from scratch. Is there anything else to try first? Thanks very much!
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Timothy,
Now we cannot even see the Forum page when we go to the site, open a Group, and click Forum. Before today, we would see a red-background error message "There was an error in creating the topic" upon doing the above and clicking New Topic. So I cannot show you a screen shot - it would be a blank page.
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Timothy, thanks.
I looked at the permissions of the plugins folder - there are many plugins - and noted that it was 775. I recursed that into all of the folders, subfolders and files in the plugins directory. But that didn't fix the problem. Could it be permissions on other folders? The logs seem to indicate that it is the plugins folder.
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If you set 755 recursively on all folders, and a 644 on all files. (Except those which explicitly needing more permissions) Let me know if that changes it.
If the file exists and the permissions are correct it should work fine.
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Hi, Tim. Thanks for following up. Yes, I was able to get the forum topics going. I did try deleting the forum_id records, but that didn't work until I disabled the Forum functionality for each group, refreshed the site, and re-enabled the Forums in each group. That did the trick. Should have posted that! One difficulty was in figuring out what the group id number was for each group, but Sarah Gooding posted a way to do that by using Firebug to inspect the group avatar, which gets assigned a name that includes the group id number.
All the other error messages, permissions issues, error logs with "failed to open" messages, etc, threw me off for a while.
One remaining issue is that the Member avatars are not appearing. Any hints on how to make them show up would be great!
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Hey there! :-)
Just checking in to see how things are going with this one and if you need any further help. :-)
We haven't heard from you on this thread for a while, perhaps you got help over email. I'm going to presume your all fixed up now and don't need any further assistance.
However if you have more questions or need some more help then please feel free to respond in this thread or create a new one and we will be more than happy to offer assistance. :-)
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Hey panoptic, welcome to the WPMU Dev Community. :-)
Does this happen on the default BuddyPress theme?
Which version for WordPress and BuddyPress are you currently on. :-)
Take care.
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Hi, tim, thanks for answering. I am on WP 3.3.1 and BP 1.54, with bbpress 2.02. Yes, this is the default theme although it has a new header image. URL: connections.aiaphila.org.
Could you respond to reed@deltaangel.com? I am assisting Rick Kauffman with this site.
Thanks!
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Whoops, that is reed@panopticdesign.com. Sorry!
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Hey again.
If this is the default theme is being used, then could we check for plugin conflicts by disabling all other plugins and then testing again.
Does this work for you:
http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/error-when-creating-topics#post-9428
If you could please try those first.
Thanks.
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Thanks. I deactivated all plugins except BuddyPress and bbpress. Didn't help. I also unchecked the Enable Discussion Forum checkbox, saved the settings and re-enabled it. That didn't work either. Before I try deleting the forum_id records, can you tell me what post I will lose? There are no forum posts because I cannot create any topics. But there are other posts in the Group and I don't want to lose them. I cannot locate that plugin 'attach bbpress forum to groups' that you mentioned.
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Also, my hosting service provided these errors from logs:
[Wed Feb 15 07:15:48 2012] [error] [client 66.249.71.193] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_id_from_slug() in /nas/wp/www/cluster-1077/connections/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-functions.php on line 137
[Wed Feb 15 07:16:12 2012] [error] [client 66.249.71.193] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_id_from_slug() in /nas/wp/www/cluster-1077/connections/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-functions.php on line 137
[Wed Feb 15 19:49:39 2012] [error] [client 66.249.71.193] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_site_name() in /nas/wp/www/cluster-1077/connections/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php on line 27
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Well taking one of them errors.... "bp_site_name" This is a BuddyPress function so for it to be undefined..... I would go into your admin area and go though the BuddyPress set up again and make sure all that is set up correctly.
You might also want to try unpacking a fresh set of files, removing all the old ones and uploading the fresh set.
Let me know how you get on.
Take care.
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Ok, thanks much!
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I have uninstalled BuddyPress and bbpress, downloaded a new copy of BP 1.5.4 and tried installing it via FTP (after unzipping) and via the standard upload in zipped form. Both install, but neither one runs the installation wizard. I still cannot create new forum topics.
What can I do to start at the very beginning - running the installation wizard? Thank you.
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Also, when I try to activate the bbpress plugin, I get the error message "plugin does not have a valid header."
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Nearly everytime I seen "plugin does not have a valid header" removing the plugin and uploading via FTP seemed to fix it for the user. Worth another try....
I seem to recall one being the nesting of the directory or the files wrong, might be worth you have:
/plugins/buddypress/ FILES
Let me know.
Take care.
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I got the plugin to install but now see an error message saying it is not in the correct directory. But that is not the issue that matters now. What we want is Group Forums, and I cannot get them to work and I do not see the installation wizard run when uninstalling and reinstalling BP as above.
I think I have to totally delete the site files and start from scratch. Is there anything else to try first? Thanks very much!
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I'm not 100% sure whats gone wrong on your install there.
Can I see a screenshot of the error? Any fresh errors in your error logs?
Take care.
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Timothy,
Now we cannot even see the Forum page when we go to the site, open a Group, and click Forum. Before today, we would see a red-background error message "There was an error in creating the topic" upon doing the above and clicking New Topic. So I cannot show you a screen shot - it would be a blank page.
Thanks. Any ideas are welcome.
Reed
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Hey Reed.
Yup:
I've never personally had this many issues with BuddyPress...
Let me know about those error logs again.
Take care.
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Tim, here you go:
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Hey again. :-)
Those errors are showing its failed to open a file. I would check the ownership and file permissions are correct there.
I run suPHP on my server and have permissions set to 755 on folders and 644 on files.
Take care.
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Timothy, thanks.
I looked at the permissions of the plugins folder - there are many plugins - and noted that it was 775. I recursed that into all of the folders, subfolders and files in the plugins directory. But that didn't fix the problem. Could it be permissions on other folders? The logs seem to indicate that it is the plugins folder.
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Check that - some of that was denied. Trying individually
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If you set 755 recursively on all folders, and a 644 on all files. (Except those which explicitly needing more permissions) Let me know if that changes it.
If the file exists and the permissions are correct it should work fine.
Take care.
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Hey panoptic.
Just checking in to see how you are getting on with this one.
I noticed you hadn't replied for a few days so wasn't sure if you got it sorted or not?
If not then please feel free to respond and open the thread again. :-)
Take care.
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Hi, Tim. Thanks for following up. Yes, I was able to get the forum topics going. I did try deleting the forum_id records, but that didn't work until I disabled the Forum functionality for each group, refreshed the site, and re-enabled the Forums in each group. That did the trick. Should have posted that! One difficulty was in figuring out what the group id number was for each group, but Sarah Gooding posted a way to do that by using Firebug to inspect the group avatar, which gets assigned a name that includes the group id number.
All the other error messages, permissions issues, error logs with "failed to open" messages, etc, threw me off for a while.
One remaining issue is that the Member avatars are not appearing. Any hints on how to make them show up would be great!
Thanks again!
Reed
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wow, huge head aches huh!
I please you got the vast majority of things sorted here!!
So these avatars, can you see a broken image? Do they appear in the code when you view with Firebug or Chrome developer tools?
Just wondering where its linking the images to?
Take care.
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Hey there! :-)
Just checking in to see how things are going with this one and if you need any further help. :-)
We haven't heard from you on this thread for a while, perhaps you got help over email. I'm going to presume your all fixed up now and don't need any further assistance.
However if you have more questions or need some more help then please feel free to respond in this thread or create a new one and we will be more than happy to offer assistance. :-)
Take care.
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