[Plugin: Buddypress-Ajax-Chat] Did you get the Fatal Error message?

Did you get, “Fatal error: Call to a member function getName() on a non-object in C:\xampp\htdocs\wpmu\wp-content\plugins\buddypress-ajax-chat\bp-chat\chat\lib\class\AJAXChat.php on line 124”?

Its because your computer doesn’t know what localhost is. Most Linux servers will define localhost for you in /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1 localhost. On windows you might not have this. So you can do one of a few things to fix it.

One way is to add 127.0.0.1 localhost to /windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts file.

Another is to modify your wordpress plugins file directly.
Edit, wp-content/plugins/buddypress-ajax-chat/bp-chat/config/bp-chat-config.php. Change $bp_chat_config_db_host = ‘localhost’; to $bp_chat_config_db_host = ‘127.0.0.1’;

Both of the above should fix the issue. I’ve only seen it on a Windows PC. Linux, you won’t see this issue.

Good Luck:)

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