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404 page when trying to Create a Group

I have the latest WPMU and BuddyPress all is working ok until I try to create a group, then I get a 404 page.

Logged in as Admin I get the 404 on the following URL.

http://taggeriffic.com/members/admin/groups/create/

Anyone?

David

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:49:22
  • Aaron
    • Ex Staff

    I see an error. It looks like possibly a file is missing from the BP magazine theme, or maybe you are trying to run it on an older version of BP?

    What version of BP are you using?

    Also, you may want to try overwriting all the theme files with fresh copies.

  • Adeptris
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Hi Andrew,

    I tried the default theme, no plugins enabled apart from buddypress and the error page was shown.

    The problem is only with the Windows Default IE browser, I have IE8, with FireFox it is working just fine where i can create groups and forum posts, so it opens up thinking around the Browser, but over 75% of browsers are IE, so I really need a solution.

    David

  • Adeptris
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    I have also opened a ticket over on BuddyPress, as It looks like IE8 is having problems with the PHP functions as the Visit > Random xxxx also brings up a 404 page, only in IE8 and not in FireFox so it looks to be Browser specific.

    if someone else on Vista and IE8 can try the Visit links in the top left corner at http://www.taggeriffic.com and let me know if they get the same problem, so I know if it is my system only or all IE8 browsers.

    Thanks

    David

  • Adeptris
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Hi Andrew,

    Thanks for your time, I have now tested it on two PC’s one with IE7 and the other with IE8, and it is the same issue, I will see what comes back from the BuddyPress forum.

    Strange thing is I have a shared reseller account on a windows server, ASP, NetFramework, PHP, mySql, msSql, and sites with WP, WPMU, DotNetNuke and all the site loads fine in FireFox.

    David

  • kernel_panic
    • Flash Drive

    I had a similar issue where I was getting errors on certain pages. Resetting the permalink setup fixed my issue.

    Try resetting your permalink setup to re-write the .htaccess file, it may be a .htaccess problem, as the .htaccess would be the only real thing that could cause a 404 in IE only and not FireFox.

  • Adeptris
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    I had already tried returning the .htaccess file to the default, this had no effect.

    I have now tried resetting the permalinks, I assume you meant re-save the option, still no change.

    I checked the .htaccess file against the default and nothing has changed, so the site has the default .htaccess settings, does it need any custom entries for Buddypress?

    David

  • Adeptris
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    This came back from my ISP’s forum:

    The redirecting pages are being served with a 404 Page not found header, which IE must be reading and then ignoring the subsequent refresh header.

    As an example here is the sort of header the app is serving, you may wish to post it back in the BuddyPress forum:

    Code:

    HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

    Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0

    Pragma: no-cache

    Content-Length: 0

    Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

    Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT

    Last-Modified: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:19:00 GMT

    Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0

    X-Server: BERYLLIUM

    X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

    X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.11

    Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=123f18412c96f45681b036e6fea8c123; path=/

    X-Pingback: http://taggeriffic.com/xmlrpc.php

    Refresh: 0;url=http://taggeriffic.com/members/exampleuser/

    Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:19:00 GMT

    Connection: close

    This is way above my skills any experts want to chip in with a comment?

    David

  • Adeptris
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Hi Richie,

    Thanks for your time, I just tried creating a group and it went straight to the 404 page.

    This was the URL it errored at:

    http://taggeriffic.com/members/adeptris/groups/create/

    Logged off and Visit > ‘Random Group’ also gives the 404 page.

    This was the URL it errored at:

    http://taggeriffic.com/members/?random-group

    I have tried it with a webbook, XP and IE7 as well with the same result, can you access the Visit > Random Member, Group or Blog without error?

    David

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  • Adeptris
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    A bit more Background:

    It has been suggested that my issue is an ISS problem, however this just bounces the problem about, this is not a ‘rage post’, I develop accounting systems in another language called ‘C/Side’ and I fully understand how some issues take a long time to resolve with many heads, I do think it is a BuddyPress related issue because of the following points.

    My reseller account is a shared Hosting Account and each domain has ASP and PHP “Dynamic Content” enabled, as in the earlier post:

    X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

    X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.11

    Other websites on my account are:

    http://www.adeptris.com is DotNetNuke with no 404 Errors (asp)

    http://www.photographerstripod.com is DotNetNuke with no 404 Errors (asp)

    http://www.digitalraindrops.net is nopCommerce with no 404 Errors (asp)

    Other WordPress websites on my account:

    http://www.digitalweblogistics.com/blog is WP with no 404 Errors (php)

    http://www.instancesintime.com/ is WPMU with no 404 Errors (php)

    WordPress and BuddyPress

    http://www.taggeriffic.com is WPMU and BuddyPress with 404 Errors

    This new BuddyPress website is out the box with no custom modifications, I first done a manual upload of BuddyPress, since then I have uninstalled and reinstall with an Auto-Install, it is only the BuddyPress installation that has this error in IE from all my websites.

    Could it be an Issue with wordpress-mu-2.8.6

    David

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hiya,

    I’m afraid IIS isn’t a recommended web server for WPMU/BuddyPress. I didn’t realize that’s what you were using or I would have pointed it out as a problem earlier.

    A lot of people have problems with the WPMU/BuddyPress rewrites and redirects working on IIS and this seems to be another case of that.

    My suggestion is to setup the BuddyPress site on a linux based host.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • Adeptris
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Hi Andrew,

    I think a BP dev is going to look at this, I had it posted on Trac, they think it is something to do with specific functions that use the $_GET variable and IIS.

    WPMU sits quite happy on IIS and a windows server, putting and getting with no problems, as my other websites show.

    BuddyPress is looking for a large market share so they would likely want to sort this type of problem out, it is surprising with software how many users do not report problems, just blame the software and stop using it.

    David

  • Aaron
    • Ex Staff

    Very very few people use Buddypress with IIS, thats why you are the first person to notice!

    I’m with Andrew in recommending just switching to a linux host. Not to start a “best server” battle, but just because that what everyone uses for BP and WPMU and you will get very little support for IIS.