@philipjcowan
Do whatever BuddyPress tells you to (permalinks settings and modifications to .htaccess) + you need to allow rewriting. It’s relatively easy :
# Open the Apache config /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (may be located elswhere ?)
# Locate your DocumentRoot settings in the conf file.
# Change AllowOveride None to AllowOveride All inside the DocumentRoot.
# Restart Apache (eg. /etc/init.d/httpd restart)
and thats it !
