Update 'siteurl' variable 'home'

[bebradsm1]

Originally posted at: http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/siteurl-vs-home-getting-the-blog-domain?replies=1#post-36679

I noticed Buddypress confuses the use of the WP "siteurl" and "home" variables.

The following scenario applies to WPMU 2.9.1.1 and BP 1.2 RC2.

I have moved all my core WPMU files to their own directory instead of the root. This requires me to update the "siteurl" variable to point to those files. The "home" variable still points to the domain. (As recommended in ​http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)

Meanwhile, in bp-core.php, the bp_core_get_root_domain() description says: "@return $domain The domain URL for the blog." However, the actual functions return the value of "siteurl" instead of "home." In this case, "siteurl" is *not* the value of the domain. If I manual edit this core file to make the change the problem goes away.

Otherwise, the result is that some links generated by BP, i.e. adminbar, look like ​http://domain/wpdir/members instead of ​http://domain/members (the addition of the <wpdir> folder).

[andrea_r]

Can you confirm that setup works in WPMU without BP active? Because it's my understanding that unlike single WP, WPMU can't be moved. Specifically, check the blogs.

[ousep]

Confirming that this is an issue in WP 2.9.2 (single).

[johnjamesjacoby]

This was also reported and patched by sambauers a few weeks ago.

[ptroxler]

as per my post on the forum, using 'home' does corrupt the login link in the adminbar on a WP 3.0 single install with 1.2.5.2

[r-a-y]

Related: ​http://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1948#comment:6
Fixed in trunk. Any reason why [3343] did not apply to 1.2 branch as well?

[DJPaul]

1.2.7 is imminent for branch and is only meant to be a maintenance release with critical bug fixes in. There will probably be a 1.2.8 around the time of the WordPress 3.1 release which will only fix a couple of known compatibility bugs. Everything else is going into 1.3, which we're shooting for a mid/early January.