I installed the buddypress plugin, activated, and when trying to go to plugin options the site stopped loading, even home page is not loading.
I tried to go back in admin and deactivate it, but it doesn´t deactivate.
Can i deactivate it by deleting the plugin and database files?
You certainly can just remove the plugin folder. There are no new database tables – only a single Options record.
More to the point though is why is there a problem. So you could check a few things first…
Firstly – is this using the very latest versions of WP, SP, BuddyPress and out BP plugin? I know there was a problem on a previous version that could show this behaviour if there was some setting in BP itself turned on 9i would have to search out the details).
Next – is the name of the folder the plugin is in actually named exactly ‘buddypress’ which it must be – and can you confirm that it was loaded into the correct SP Plugin location.
It could even be a simple corrupted file which does happen to everybody every now and then – especially if uploaded to your server using FileZilla.
That’s a good list for starters…
I´m using all the latest softwares.
The folder is named buddypress, i uploaded as a zip file via the plugin uploader.
I´ll try to delete the plugin folder to see if the site comes back.
Can you take a look in your php error log to see what has been reported. And here I am really referring to your server php error log usually available to look at through your website hosting control panel…
A weird thing just happened!
I tried to update simple-forum plugin and i got a fail to update message, unable to remove old plugin.
I then clicked on the link to update database and another fail message, something like “no permission to access page …/sp-startup/sp-load-install.php
But now simple-forum is gone! The admin menu disappeared.
This is my Apache2 error log
[Wed Aug 13 15:17:50 2014] [notice] child pid 16069 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/apache2
That’s the Apache web server log. We are really asking about the php error log.
I´m on a VPS managed hosting, with no control panel.
I tried the /var/log/php.log, but there are no entries for today…
your php.ini file would tell you where its located… vps doesnt really matter as far as log – unless its completely disabled in php.ini (non standard)…
another option would be try enabling wp debug in your wp-config.php file… add:
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);
define(‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, true);