Installation Instructions
Neil Patel has written some more detailed installation instructions for those of you having trouble getting started. It’s a little bit of a pain now, but hey, it’s alpha. We haven’t even gotten to the perpetual beta stage yet. I happy to say that with a little more coding this can be taken down to two or three steps, like the WordPress installation.
I moved the installation file to this location: http://www.ex-astris-scientia.net/dropbox/blog/bbpress-install.html
I set up a permament redirect though so the link you currently have should still work.
Comment by Neil — December 31, 2004 @ 4:53 pm
No way to install it locally yet then?
Comment by ronco — January 1, 2005 @ 5:16 pm
install what? the docs? or the script?
i don’t see why bbPress in it’s infancy here wouldn’t install just fine on a testing server.
and the docs, well…
who knows?
Comment by fernando — January 2, 2005 @ 11:30 pm
I can’t complete the install locally because the admin password has to be e-mailed. So I can actually install the forum but I can’t access the admin area.
Comment by ronco — January 3, 2005 @ 12:18 am
If your server can’t send out emails I would recommend manually setting the password using a MD5 hash tool.
Comment by Matt — January 3, 2005 @ 1:13 am
Matt, thanks for that steer - it made me hunt around and I found this great post which tells you how to get round the MD5 hash, without having to use an MD5 hash tool. Worth noting. It is http://bfl.rctek.com/guides/?guide=md5
Comment by ronco — January 3, 2005 @ 5:10 pm
It would be nice if the URL worked, fortunately google has a cache of it…
Comment by Lars — January 6, 2005 @ 5:06 am
Sorry about that, my current host tends to have some issues with uptime.
Comment by Neil — January 6, 2005 @ 11:28 pm
How do i set/enable the email? After installation, mine didn’t send the email. I had to set the password manually. Does this mean that I have to set and send the passwords to other people manually?
btw, where’s the admin area? which file? Thanks.
Comment by ISPS — January 15, 2005 @ 3:32 pm
Have you made sure your server can send mail?
I don’t think that there is one yet in the nightlies though I’m sure that its being worked on as I post this.
Comment by Neil — January 16, 2005 @ 12:54 am
My server has sendmail. So either the url is not configured properly or you set some other email thingy which I don’t know about. If I need to set the URL, where can I configure it? Thanks
Comment by ISPS — January 16, 2005 @ 4:29 am
um, typo in previous post or confused with who what with BBpress.
‘you’, assuming you’re developing BBpress.
but anyway, yeah, need help on setting the email thing. Thanks
Comment by ISPS — January 16, 2005 @ 4:41 am
I couldn’t figure out how to change my password or actually add a forum. Guess I should just wait for the first beta before I try to use this one. I highly recommend that WP integration be at the top of developers’ priority lists. The main thing I am looking to add to my site are incentives to register. Integrating it with WP’s user login would be *awesome*. Thanks for everyone’s hard work! I can’t wait to see this simple and straightforward board in action on other sites!!
Comment by thepete — January 23, 2005 @ 8:52 pm
Looks like the installation instructions have been removed, the link now gives a 404 error.
Comment by elfin — February 8, 2005 @ 1:13 pm
Yea, there site is under construction now…Is there another link? Or maybe someone saved the instructions?
Comment by Jenn — February 9, 2005 @ 4:09 am
Does anyone have a copy of the instructions? All links are dead… even the google cached doesn’t give spit out the page.
Comment by kevinn — February 19, 2005 @ 3:26 pm
@ Kevinn: if you use the search function under “development”, you’lll find everything you need. Type “MySQL” for the hardest part: creating a forum.
Everything you need can be found there.
Maybe in a few days I have time to write a manual, but darn, work is killing me right now! *_*
Comment by Memente — March 2, 2005 @ 9:38 am
@memente how to create a forum ?
Comment by if — March 7, 2005 @ 7:10 pm
@ if: (here’s a copy paste from the dev-part)
1. after you have installed bbPress, load phpmyadmin
2. select the bb_forums table
3. click insert
4. enter forum id “1″ - the name “name of your forum” - the description “a little something about your forum”
5. click “go”
your forum is now installed.
That’s the simple basics!
Comment by Memente — March 8, 2005 @ 12:02 pm
oh, btw: kudos to fernando for this.
Comment by Memente — March 8, 2005 @ 12:06 pm
still cant open the page located at:
“http://www.ex-astris-scientia.net/dropbox/blog/bbpress-install.html”
Comment by SupremeColor — March 12, 2005 @ 1:30 pm
there’s no html files… it’s all php!
just go the the top levelindexfile of bbpress, and you will be guided from there!
Easy does it!
(well, normally. I do not see where you uploaded your bbPress stuff…)
Comment by Memente — March 14, 2005 @ 9:31 am
Ow! My bad… thought you could not get the install started… Man, it’s way too much Monday morning!
That page is long gone, you should be able to do the install with my earlier post and the small documentation! Good luck!
Comment by Memente — March 14, 2005 @ 9:34 am
Install BBpress
Comment by Serban — March 20, 2005 @ 9:50 am
Kids!
is mondays that bad to you?
Comment by angel — April 24, 2005 @ 5:41 am